Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What’s so wrong with that?

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people’s lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life […].

I didn’t want to fall in love. Looking at you gave me chills and kissing you made my knees weak. You made flowers grow and fill the space in my lungs which made it impossible...

I’ve never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.

This win is for the other seniors who have worked hard for four years. I told them emotion would last for the first three minutes of the game, so we had to be ready to...

We are the wire, and tomorrow is like yesterday with a furry back. Don’t pet me, Tuesday! Please don’t Wednesday with my emotions.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Learning to have patience and not forcing the relationship is part of the twin soul process. If you are trying to force your will onto the other person, chances are you’re not ready to really...

Mike has just been so good from the beginning. When I first started with Schumacher, that’s who I wanted. I didn’t know if I was going to get hired or not, but I told Don...

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad....

Feelings are not as uncomfortable to experience as they are to express.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world. It is our observer, at the core of our being, that teaches us...

Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem to have in common is the ability to distract women from the memories,...

I’ve read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working, even if the world keeps spinning you will stand still for...

I had never been in love with anyone before in my life, but I knew the feeling when it came bursting into my soul, like a million butterflies swirling around inside of me, like a...

Remember when we didn’t know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form, when light and dark were not necessary for the picture to...

Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy.* Other...

Hate is a terrible thing. It’s a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it’ll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You...

and it was the pretending that might explain how she could smile so brightly while her mind felt nothing – as if, at these times, there existed a disconnection between outer and inner, a shutting...

Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don’t think it’s any of that — it’s helpless …...

I’m tired of hurting from the people who leave me. I’m tired of getting comfortable with others. I tell you everything and you leave. It’s like you’re take what is good in me and all...

The one who cries, is always the one who is in need.

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning...

While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA is not the heart’s destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in...

For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny.

This is really emotional for me.

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.

Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long…go me. All I’ve got are memories and secrets.

The Plaza is one of those places where everyone had an emotional moment. People’s parents got engaged there, people got married there or fell in love there.

somewhere under the rage, there’s something human. barely.

Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me… And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous...

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

but I have mixed emotions. I’m happy to be second but I’m also sad to be second.

Don’t run from your feelings; sooner or later, they’ll catch up and throw you down.” EL Meeting life on life’s terms!

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

The stronger the identification with the team, typically the stronger emotional reaction to the losses. So the higher the highs, and the lower the lows.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn – to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise…

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry.

We let our emotions get the best of us, and that starts with me.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

I think my emotion carried it [into the seats].

I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’ ‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’ ‘Do anyone’s insides and...