“Kilig (Tagalog): The feeling of butterflies in your stomach, usually when something romantic or cute takes place.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Boys are taught, sometimes with the best of intentions, to mutate their emotional suffering into anger... Despite the emergence of the metrosexual and an increase in stay-at-home dads, tough-guy stereotypes die hard. As men continue to fall behind women in college, while outpacing them four to one i…”— Andrew Reiner, nytimes.com
“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“When something’s really bothering me, I just like to get it out. I like to completely give in to the emotion. If I pretend I’m not sad—if I try smiling through it, and pretending like everything’s fine—it makes it worse. When I give in and let it out, I feel better.”— Michelle Madow, amazon.com
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Let it be enough that the world looks alive when it’s wet and so much living is most beautiful when it’s dying.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“Once, someone told me I have a small heart. Whenever I weep I press the moment like a garlic clove— I want to feel, good God I want to feel, to see how everything alive becomes a landscape.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. By remembering the past we can plan for the future. But the ability to plan for the future is offset by the "ability" to dr…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“We buoy between extremes: not caring about anything or caring so much about one thing it could break us all together.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Your numbness isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and never having learned to process anything at all.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses and allowing yourself the emotions that you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“We avoid feeling anything because we have more or less been taught that our feelings have lives of their own. That they'll carry on forever if we give them even a moment of our awareness.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a…”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com