Quotes About Emotion

passions overwhelm reason time and again.

el descontrol emocional obstaculiza la labor del intelecto

Benjamin Franklin put it well: "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one." There

All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb "to move," plus the prefix "e-" to connote "move away," suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion. That

La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.

each emotion prepares the body for a very different kind of response:7

A mais antiga raiz de nossa vida emocional está no sentido do olfato, ou, mais precisamente, no lobo olfativo, células que absorvem e analisam o cheiro.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

Benjamin Franklin put it well: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

dotar de inteligencia a la emoción

In The Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle's philosophical enquiry into virtue, character, and the good life, his challenge is to manage our emotional life with intelligence. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. But they can easily go awry, and do so all too often. As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

Projection ignores the other person's inner reality: when we are projecting, we assume the other feels and thinks as we do.

The fact that the thinking brain grew from the emotional reveals much about the relationship of thought to feeling; there was an emotional brain long before there was a rational one.

el neocórtex puede aprender a inhibir el funcionamiento de la amígdala.

All emotions are, in essence, impulses to act, the instant plans for handling life that evolution has instilled in us. The very root of the word emotion is motere, the Latin verb "to move," plus the prefix "e-" to connote "move away," suggesting that a tendency to act is implicit in every emotion.

The emotional/rational dichotomy approximates the folk distinction between heart and head; knowing something is right in your heart is a different order of conviction - somehow a deeper kind of certainty - than thinking so with your rational mind.

Anatomically the emotional system can act independently of the neocortex," LeDoux told me. "Some emotional reactions and emotional memories can be formed without any conscious, cognitive participation at all.

As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

Our journey begins in Part One with new discoveries about the brain's emotional architecture that offer an explanation of those most baffling moments in our lives when feeling overwhelms all rationality.

In terms of biological design for the basic neural circuitry of emotion, what we are born with is what worked best for the last 50,000 human generations, not the last 500 generations—and certainly not the last five.

Missing feels like a sad spot in my heart...Missing means I love her.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.