Quotes About Emotion

Neuroscience has discovered that a key part of the brain that processes emotion is the "mammalian brain" or limbic system that we share with other mammals, though not with reptiles and lower life-forms. The warm, emotional bond between a dog and its owner, for example, transcends species. In contrast, any bond between a snake and its owner will be strictly one-way.

there's a fine line between love and hate

Yeah but I don't know how to make myself go there. Maybe it might never happen again. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.

Courage is forged in pain, but not in all pain. Pain that is denied or ignored becomes fear or hate.

In fact, research shows that the process of labeling emotional experience is related to greater emotion regulation and psychosocial well-being.

Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it's from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it's the thinking part of anxiety. Worry is described as a chain of negative thoughts about bad things that might happen in the future.

We can't selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light.

A wild heart is not something you can always see -- and yet it is our greatest spiritual possession.

Additionally, we have compelling research that shows that language does more than just communicate emotion, it can actually shape what we're feeling. Our understanding of our own and others' emotions is shaped by how we perceive, categorize, and describe emotional experiences—and these interpretations rely heavily on language. Language

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.

Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

Too much twee emotional expression--too many claims like, "Everything is awesome," or "I just never really feel angry or upset," or "If you're just positive, you can turn that frown upside down,"--often masks real pain and hurt. These behaviors are as much red flags as brooding and anger are....Being all light is as dangerous as being all dark, simply because denial of emotion is what feeds the dark.

Heartbreak is an altogether different thing. Disappointment doesn't grow into heartbreak, nor does failure...It comes form the loss of love or the perceived loss of love...Heartbreak is what happens when love is lost.

Music always makes me feel less alone in the mess.

Shame is universal and one of the most primitive human emotions that we experience. The only people who don't experience shame are those who lack the capacity for empathy and human connection.

Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional.

What Is Joy? Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Gratitude, therefore, emerged from the data as the antidote to foreboding joy.

Resentment is the feeling of frustration, judgment, anger, "better than," and/or hidden envy related to perceived unfairness or injustice. It's an emotion that we often experience when we fail to set boundaries or ask for what we need, or when expectations let us down because they were based on things we can't control, like what other people think, what they feel, or how they're going to react.