2,778 Quotes About Emotions

That is normal...To be afraid. Do not let anyone tell you any different. No one can ever say that what you feel is right or wrong, or pointless or unworthy of your time. That is a truth for you to decide. Ignorance is bliss, but there comes a time when you must open your eyes and face the truth—when you must be honest with yourself.

If we realize that the assumptions by which the person has lived his or her life are collapsing, that the assembled strategies of the provisional personality are decompensating, that a world-view is falling apart, than the thrashing about is understandable. In fact, one might even conclude that there is no such thing as a crazy act if one understands the emotional context. Emotions are not chosen they choose us and have a logic of their own.

Life made me realize thatI can also livewithout those peoplewith whom I want to livefor the rest of my life- life goes on

I think that certain emotions can compromise you when you’re at war. If you stop to mourn the dead, or even to breathe in what you’ve done, you’ll be dead as well. Your brain goes to a primitive region, one inaccessible to feelings beyond pure anger and pure fear. Your brain is reduced to two impulses: fight or flight. Kill or be killed. No room for more delicate feelings. No room for a soul. All you’re thinking about is how to maneuver your body in space so it will survive.

Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

It's not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief.

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.

If you’re trying to predict human economic behavior—and you don’t include emotions in yourequation—your predictions will probably be way off. Emotions factor heavily into the algorithms thatproduce our trade-off decisions.

You can only know how you feel. You can feel angry and sad, happy or mad. Your feelings can teach you a lot. But you’re more than your feelings, Jack. You can be anything you want to be.