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Quotes About Emotion

Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her legs and lifted her guitar onto her lap, she had an interesting way of tucking the foot of the bottom leg back under her chair that made Hector feel melty. He looked away in self-preservation.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
I once heard that the French don't prosecute people who commit crimes of passion twenty minutes after waking.
~ Lynne Tillman
Mr. Sourpuss Pants God I love her Nicholas " Thomas crowed. When he noticed that neither Nicholas nor Inez looked impressed by the words he added quickly "In a totally sister-in-law type fashion of course.
~ Lynsay Sands
Rejection isn't just an emotion we feel. It's a message that's sent to the core of who we are, causing us to believe lies about ourselves, others, and God. We connect an event from today to something harsh someone once said. That person's line becomes a label. The label becomes a lie. And the lie becomes a liability in how we think about ourselves and interact in every future relationship.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It's easy to live loved when I feel loved.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Because rejection is an abstract word that doesn't have an image attached to it, I
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I'm completely sane except when I'm the opposite of that.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Honesty isn't trying to hurt me. It's trying to heal me.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Rejection always leaves the deepest, darkest marks.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I don't remember a single classroom lesson she taught, but I very clearly remember the way she made me feel.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If we react with more emotion than is appropriate for an isolated incident, it's probably not so isolated. The escalated emotion of this situation is probably an indication of painful ties to the past.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself. And the minute you sense that happening is the minute you must stop the runaway thinking with truth.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Trauma isn't just something that happens to you. It happens in you
~ Lysa TerKeurst
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
~ Unknown
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes ... a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory.
~ Unknown
You speak As one who fed on poetry.
~ Unknown
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
~ Unknown
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
~ Unknown