All Quotes By Tag: Emotions

“Music envelopes us in a euphoria of emotions that only a musician can unravel.”

“We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.”

“People who are used to constant attention and flattery become inured to the merely pleasant and become “peak seekers.” They expect the highs, and when their unrealistic goals or expectations are not met, they are not simply disappointed, they are devastated.”

“Happiness” alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.”

“Colors move my emotions around as if they were driving a taxi, and I was merely a passenger.”

“If you don’t love me, is it okay if I love you?”

“I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.”

“Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don’t want either to give or to take … You don’t want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.””That’s true. That’s the truest thing you ever said.””All right. I can respect that. Only you’ve got to play the game. Don’t force an emotional situation and then blame me for it.””But I don’t want any situation. I want to be left in peace.”

“Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to apologise for a wrongdoing. In proper doses, these types of negative emotions are necessary and healthy.”

“Helping someone who does not help.It will kill you emotionally , kill your happiness and leaving you with regrets.”

“Giving your time to someone who does not it.It will kill you emotionally , kill your happiness and leaving you with regrets.”

“She’s not a girl. She’s been through hurricanes of emotions, she fought the armies of fears, she passed the trickiest life’s trials.She matured like wine through humid darkness, cold and time. She came out fizzy and sweet.”

“As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.”

“A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.”

“Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.”