Quotes about Emotions

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.

Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.

I cannot put words to the feelings within me on the day we brought her out for burial. It is an odd thing to stand so close to life's beginning and life's end. Birth and death are such strange cousins. We carried my mother to the graveyard, shed tears and sang hymns, then returned home, stood over the cradle, smiled, and sang lullabies. . . .

Lot of stories. Sad thing when stories die for the lack of listenin' ears.

Ever'body got story. Ever'body got a reason for what they do. You eat off somebody else's plate, drink a their cup, could be, you'd be the same way.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not

The heart is a wellspring. It has infinite capacity to manufacture love. The only barriers are the ones we put in the way.

No matter how much you want to cut your family out of your heart, you can't. The bond is born when you are born, like an organ in your body. There is no surgery to remove it. When it is diseased, you live with a dull ache telling you that something inside you is not right.