Quotes About Emotion

When we react to situations, we always choose what feels best for us emotionally.

I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. (I did not.)

Love is the hardest thing in the world.

Anger is not a feeling; it's a defence. When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.

Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

Our unconscious needs are strong—so strong that they can overwhelm us. We all desperately want to be loved.

Love means vulnerability; people who love you can also hurt you. Making oneself vulnerable is the ultimate in bravery.

Is it better to feel or to maintain your sanity?

Anger is a signal that someone wants to be treated differently, which is healthy; cruelty is when we deliberately want to hurt someone else.

Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.

Wow," she said when he finally released her. Breathing hard, Dillon propped his forehead against hers. I see your 'wow' and raise you a 'hot damn.' But just to be absolutely certain we aren't overreacting, maybe we should put it to the test one more time." Pele's Tears

Everything you've ever fed him," I say. "His whole self is made completely out of your love.

It's monstrous. It is too much to take. Why do we even do this—love anybody? Our dumb animal hearts.

I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to.

It's like if someone had a loaded gun in your face. I don't know how else to describe how it felt to try to talk to my father. Even on a good day. If someone always has a loaded gun in your face, you weigh every word before you say it. You only dare say it if it might save you. But you're never sure, so there's this tendency to freeze. Say nothing at all.

After all, the only thing that hurts more than tears shed is tears unshed.

But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It's an emotion given to action, and it needs somewhere to go. Even if it has to make something up as it goes along.

They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.

Every now and then my love for that child hit me so hard I felt bowled over. Like a turtle knocked upside down onto its shell, unable to right itself. This was one of those moments.

Maybe you hate a thing more than anything. But it's what is. To accept it means to see that it is that way, and that it won't be another way no matter how much you hate it.

There is one thing in this life you can never hide, and that's love. When you're in love, you can't disguise that. No one I've known can conceal it, so far as I could tell. It's like that old saying about trying to hide your light under a bushel basket, except in this case all that happens is you get this very shiny basket that glows with a light people can see from miles away.

Nathan had never liked anger. It seemed a barbaric and undignified emotion. He knew it always masked fear or hurt, and had often wished everyone could simply be sensible enough to cut out the middleman.

Nathan had never liked anger. It seemed a barbaric and undignified emotion. He knew it always masked fear or hurt, and had often wished everyone could simply be sensible enough to cut out the middleman. He

he was upset. Though hopefully not at her. But upset is a funny thing. It looks for places to direct itself. It's an emotion given to action, and it needs somewhere to go. Even if it has to make something up as it goes along. He