There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

Contention with all its variations is one of the most destructive forces in home and society. Lying and stealing are only extensions of basic problems in the home environment. Some psychologists of the day would...

People sometimes ask me why I wrote this as a novel instead of as a nonfiction book, … It’s because the terrain that I’m exploring, the emotions, aren’t documented, as is the case in most...

Peace, Love, and Happiness, are the priceless treasures of life.

Politicians and others are stuck in a horrible world where being emotional in any way counts as being unbalanced, and unable to think clearly. For me, emotions are thought.

It was unnerving. She’d looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she’d managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn’t even want to imagine what he would think of...

If there is no picture, there is no proof.

. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.

Walk into any church, and you will see people swimming in a sea of emotions (everything from shame and guilt to love and ecstasy). That may be the reason some people think that the more...

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures....

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what’s called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern...

Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.

Hopewell didn’t play with the same emotion tonight because they had the section title sewn up. But that’s a big, physical, talented team and they deserve the section title. They’re the best team in our...

In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn’t stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have...

The ‘dance of love’ has different themes and moods, just like every relationship has its highs and lows. Enjoy the high moments and hang-on during the downtimes. The diverse range of emotions is the experience...

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

He could no longer pretend not to have been brought to his knees by her blows, and he could no longer avoid the sentiments that his heart forced him to feel.

I apologize for letting my emotions get the best of me Saturday, … What I did was wrong and I am sorry.

The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.

Words won’t have meaning until you put your emotions into them.

Before you diagnose any sickness, make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man’s moon or sun, can point to the sickness in any one of his...

But human beings are like that, she thought. We’ve replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Blame is a Defense Against PowerlessnessBetrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD symptoms— hypervigilance, flashbacks and bewilderment—with broken trust, with the inability to cope with many...

it” brings a lot of discomfort, that feeling will keep moving. It will move through you, and you will move on. You will move forward.

She would not say of any one in the world that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at...

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

(…) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

Demons would often try to make me feel some negative emotion, like hatred or contempt. Because the only way I could become vulnerable to them, is if I indulged in some negative emotion, in their...

Tom can be emotional. This reminds him of how to handle this situation.

Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive,...

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

Death cases generate more emotion.

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the...

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive

Love will find you eventually, I guarantee it. That’s why you need to buy an invisible cloak from me for the one-time low price of $77,777.77. Offer valid for emotional invalids only.

The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it’s to lower emotions.

All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.

Obviously, we weren’t happy with the way the game was going. Emotions get going when you look at the scoreboard and you’re losing in the Stanley Cup Finals. And that’s what happens.

It’s a blizzard of emotions — ecstasy and also agony that we had to go through this to start with,

Eisenhower on Patton: “Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won’t with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you’ll find that they’re gone.

My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.

No one can make you feel anything. Emotions are whatever you choose to feel. It might be an instantaneous decision – to choose to be happy or sad or offended or hurt – but it’s...

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion