Quotes About Emotion

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Love can't be explained...but you can feel it & you know when it's love and when it isn't.

The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state. For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.

Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a "problem" when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as "solving" a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to "shift gear" into "Being" mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.

the act of smiling can itself make you happy. It

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

There are only two things in life,' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.

Truth is emotional, it's fluid, and above all, it's human. No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you'll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.

There is no impulse more rational than love. It makes life more bearable for the lover and the loved one

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

My paintings are not the executions of one idea or emotion that goes from (a) intention to (b) artwork. (Our notions of cause and effect are also in bad shape.) Drawings are closer and quicker in conveying immediate feelings. The more you move towards paintings, the darker the wood becomes through which Little Red Riding Hood goes, and it's not only the wolf but also the wicked with and the seven dwarfs, Judas and Jesus and the journalists, whom she has to face.