Quotes About Emotion

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.

hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

denial of emotion is what feeds the dark.

They recognize the power of emotion and they're not afraid to lean in to discomfort.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measure of courage.

We like to be moved. We like to feel connected to what it means to be human, to be reminded of our inextricable connection to one another.

Anguish is an almost unbearable and traumatic swirl of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. Shock and incredulity can take our breath away, and grief and powerlessness often come for our hearts and our minds. But anguish, the combination of these experiences, not only takes away our ability to breathe, feel, and think—it comes for our bones.

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

Research on emotion shows that positive emotions wear off quickly.

The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage had a very different definition than it does today. Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance. Shame dissipated the minute I realized that I wasn't alone—that my experience was human.

The Hopi Indians have a saying, "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

Participants described happiness as an emotion that's connected to circumstances, and they described joy as a spiritual way of engaging with the world that's connected to practicing gratitude.

We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

my life has a soundtrack. And the songs from that soundtrack can stir memories and provoke emotion in me like nothing else.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in. Vulnerability

There is no courage without vulnerability.

Happiness is stable, longer-lasting, and normally the result of effort. It's lower in intensity than joy, and more self-focused.

empathy is first: I take the perspective of another person, meaning I become the listener and the student, not the knower. Second: I stay out of judgment. And third and fourth: I try to understand what emotion they're articulating and communicate my understanding of that emotion.

their struggles to maintain their authenticity and integrity when engaging in debates and discussions driven by emotion rather than shared understanding of facts.

There is no courage without vulnerability. Courage requires the willingness to lean into uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Emotional stoicism and self-control are rewarded, and displays of emotion are punished. Vulnerability is now weakness. Anger becomes an acceptable substitute for fear, which is forbidden.

Panic, anxiety, fear, and hysteria, followed by freedom, pride, and amazement—then a little more panic.

Being all light is as dangerous as being all dark, simply because denial of emotion is what feeds the dark.