“So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That’s an old-fashioned idea, isn’t it?”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Have you ever felt like you could cry because you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?”— Kaye Gibbons, amazon.com
“When your feelings cannot be put into spoken words, you feel like exploding.”— Charmaine Penalba, wnq-writers.com
“... There are basically two categories of emotions. There are core emotions, like anger, joy and sadness, which when experienced viscerally lead to a sense of relief and clarity (even if they are initially unpleasant). And there are inhibitory emotions, like shame, guilt and anxiety, which serve to…”— Hilary Jacobs Hendel, hilaryjacobshendel.com
“Being vulnerable is scary. But I promise it’s not as scary as waking up and realizing it’s too late to hold someone’s hand. To tell them they’re magic. To dance with them. To kiss them.”— Leighton Walker, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you don’t feel, what’s the point? What can you do?”— Lois Lowry, Jonas, Brenton Thwaites, amazon.com
“You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“It is, I think, impossible to know any man. His thoughts, his own secret emotions, the way his mind works upon the things he sees - those things are the man. All the outsider sees is the shell, the mask - you see?”— Eric Ambler, amazon.com
“Sometimes I forget that unsaid sentences do not mean unfelt emotions.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions.”— Will Smith, goodreads.com
“I’m a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com