Quotes about Emotions
He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.
- Alain de Botton
There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.
- Alain de Botton
Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.
- Alain de Botton
Lovers may kill their own love story for no other reason than that they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the sheer risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered.
- Alain de Botton
Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit confession.
- Alain de Botton
We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
- Alain de Botton
She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.
- DiAnn Mills
Grief was a vicious parasite. It had dug and clawed its way into my heart, feeding off the guilt raging through me. But I'd find a way to exterminate it.
- DiAnn Mills
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains - or spiritual trial? Once they're over, the world looks quite a different place again.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer