1,266 Quotes About Emotion

When you rely on others for how you feel, you have to keep going back to them to feel differently. You become more effective when you go to yourself to regulate affectivity.

Unconditional acceptance allows you to use the energy of emotions, rather than feeling bad by suppressing and rejecting the emotional you.

Emotion is a human-made concept.

Suppressing emotion is like holding a basketball under the water.

Insurance takes care of only injuries not emotions.

The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you're pretending to be.

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.