Life’s harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they’re like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they’re...

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

In the game of cards, he would always get the worst hand. In the game of dice, he always got the worst numbers. By the age 7 he had already accepted that luck was not...

I’m convinced that whatever contains human emotions is composed of the most fragile material, for it can shatter unpredictably and without effort. And yet it is a resilient marvel as well, able to mend instantly...

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001)

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

The sad part is the emotional toll it’s taken over the years.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a...

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life – all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our...

You forget what it was like. You’d swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed...

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn’t quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you...

I didn’t want to pitch in this game. I wasn’t expecting to. I felt a little emotion because Taylor had thrown such a great game and I wanted to make sure I left everything out...

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

You need to take the emotion out of it, which I’m not quite ready to do just yet.

Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the...

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don’t have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

I’m always telling myself I don’t have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I’m only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It’s not that I’m stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I’m...

The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on...

« Tant pour l’auteur que pour le lecteur, les lettres de l’alphabet sont un mot de passe fantastique. Elles permettent l’accès à un monde magique, imaginaire et réel à la fois; ce même monde qui...

I had a feeling we were going to come back. We just put our intensity and emotion out in the second half.

Love is the hero of all emotions. My love for you is a superhero, and it looks great hidden behind a mask.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

These are tears and I am crying.It is not a painful sensation, as I always thought it must be. It feels like the purest expression of feeling that it is possible to have. And the...

We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.

I love writing about love, even though I’m an emotional orphan. I didn’t abandon my feelings—they abandoned me!

By just living one’s life, sadness accumulates here and there, be it in the blankets hung out in the sun to dry, the toothbrushes in the bathroom, and the phone history logs.

But things are so bad, I feel like I’m going to explode if I don’t do something.

Emotions are messy.

I’ve never had sex,” repeated Artemis. “Never wanted to.” It was her turn not to look at him as she spoke. “Not with a man or with a woman, or with an animal, though my...

What she really wanted […] was […] “to experience every emotion to the limit” so she could go beyond every limit.

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love...

But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to...

When you know truly know just how much God loves you it won’t matter when others don’t and if you know truly know God accepts you it won’t matter when others won’t

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and...

What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do...

The mind complex is that portion of the individual being which reflects (like a mirror) the in-pourings of the spirit and the up-pourings of the light body complex. It is where we experience the thoughts,...

Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the...

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you’re a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

To really care about others, we have to understand them – what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make....

Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes…sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

…men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.

I was worried about him – so much emotion and so much going into one shot. If they would have won the game, it would have gotten them a little more recognition and they’d be...

I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship

But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

It’s so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I’ve felt.