Quotes About Emotion

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Emotional commitment is the fuel that drives innovation.

Commitment doesn't scare me, the thought of committing to the wrong person does.

A real man gives up one night stands for a woman he can't stand one night without.

This is so weird. I feel like bambi just morphed into a raging nymphomaniac.

Ben hid a wince behind his hand, trying very hard not to think of seventy-year-old Ellie Verstgard rolling around with Mr. Wenner. Despite his best resistance, the image scrolled across his brain and took some of his love for the world with it.

Dear Torina, I can't face the idea of sacrificing you to this danger. You must stay alive." He caressed her cheek. "Hear me," he went on. "Even if you feel only friendship, Torina, I've loved you since the day you helped me to my feet. I tried so hard to stop. Then I thought you were dead, and my life hurt every day.

I like a work of art for what it means to me.

What's this?' I demanded, mimicking his hand motion. cole's gaze stopped roving. Looking me dead in the eyes, he said, 'Hot. Like...yesterday, you were...you know...whoa, but today...I mean, damn, woman. Damn!

What I wanted was a simple response. I didn't want to feel, that was too difficult. I wanted to hurt, I wanted real, tangible, physical pain. That I could understand.

Noam held a storm in his hands, and he couldn't feel a thing.

I thought you loved me.

A certain emotional frostiness is the heritage of a culture that puts great stock in WASP values: One does not talk about money sex, religion, and above all, one does not expose one's feelings. If a case can be made for the cultural contouring of personality, the Puritan ethic is the culprit in such rubrics as 'Children should be seen and not heard' and 'Never complain, never explain.

Anger is the first step toward emotional healing.

That was when I fell in love with my son, when I understood how insignificant I was, and how marvelous he was, and how one day he'd feel the exact same thing.

More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored. To

At least these cretins knew fear, one of the two great motives for belief. The question the baseball bat would not resolve was whether they knew the other motive, love, which, for some reason, was much harder to teach. (247)

I had to stop periodically to savor not only my soup but the marrow of my memories.

So I fell in love with Phi Phi, a harmless enough emotion. I was wont to fall in love two or three times a year and was now well past due.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.

Something about the fraternal atmosphere of a billiards hall reassured the soul. The isolated pool of light over a table of green felt was an indoor hydroponic zone where what grew was the prickly plant of masculine emotion, too sensitive for sunlight and fresh air.

No, we fought to the tunes of love songs, for we were the Italians of Asia.