Quotes about Emotions

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

Total compassion leads to total forgiveness. You can't force yourself to forgive anyone. Forgiveness doesn't belong to the mind. It is a feeling of the heart.

Heavy thoughts don't have to cloud your day. You have good choices for how to lift yourself out of them.

Every experience comes to us in one of four ways: as a feeling, a thought, an action, or simply a sense of being.

Psychologically, stress results whenever anxiety about the future or regrets about the past are invoked.

As afraid as she was of loving and losing, she was even more afraid of losing the chance to love him.

He can handle all your emotions. Every last dark and wretched thought. He already knows about them anyway.

His heart stirred with a yearning desire. Desire to protect her, desire to hold her and love her.

All this time he'd thought it was her feelings for Stephen that kept Meridith at arm's length. But Stephen was gone, and still she held back. He'd seen the look in her eyes. She'd been putty in his hands when he'd touched her. And then a wall had come up, shutting him out. What gave? And equally as baffling, how had Meridith, in two and a half months, gone from adversary to keeper of his heart?

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.