Quotes about Emotions

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right to express her anger and her sorrow and her bewilderment and her rage, and generally to disintegrate. These were not the expectations of her friends and family. Nothing could have been further from her expectations of herself. Instead, she threw herself into serving others.

I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to curtail the friendship.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

so many ways, loss shows us what is precious, while love teaches us who

Most people's initial reaction to sad people is to try to cheer them up, to tell them not to look at things so grimly, to look at the bright side of life. This cheering-up reaction is often an expression of that person's own needs and that person's own inability to tolerate a long face over an extended period. A mourner should be allowed to experience his sorrow, and he will be grateful for those who can sit with him without telling him not to be sad.

You may find that your God is strong enough to handle your anger, strong enough to feel compassion and love for you, even in the midst of your anger at him.

As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill never come back to me.