Quotes about Emotions

He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, imagining this, not much emotion, just a cold thrill at being a witness, a kind of bleak wonder at the fury of chemicals, and relief that he hadn't been on the plane himself but was instead safe on this side of the glass, with his faint pronged sense of doom.

Love has its own ethics, which the deliberating will irrevocably offends.

What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?

In game play it was always my philosophy that patience would win out. By that, I meant patience to follow our game plan. If we believed in it, we would wear the opposition down and would eventually get to them. If we broke away from our style, however, and played their style, we would be in trouble. And if we let our emotions, rather than our reason, command the game we would not function effectively.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was a moment of pain, sadness, despair, or fear. This work involves above all the regular, disciplined practice of moment-to-moment awareness or mindfulness, the complete owning of each moment of your experience, good, bad, or ugly. This is the essence of full catastrophe living.

We see that thoughts, when brought into and held in awareness in this way, readily lose their power to dominate and dictate our responses to life, no matter what their content and emotional charge. They then become workable rather than imprisoning. And thus, we become a bit freer in the knowing and the recognizing of them as events in the field of awareness.

Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.