“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“We need to move away from this constant need of coming across as calm, cool and collected. WE WEREN’T BUILT TO BE CALM, COOL, AND COLLECTED. If we were, it wouldn’t feel so fucking exhausting all the time. It would, you know, come naturally to us. You know what comes naturally to human beings though…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Feelings never do make sense. They get you all confused. Then they drive you around for hours before they drop you right back where you started.”— Blair Waldorf, amazon.com
“Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“I am furious, nails digging into my palms, tears stinging my eyes. I feel a flash of intense anger. I feel as though something has been taken away from me.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“There is a common misunderstanding that emotions cause us to think illogically But recent scientific thinking, reviewed by psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, has placed emotion at the center of wisdom. One reason is that most emotion is felt after an event, which apparently serves to he…”— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears them nobly and makes wise use of them is a man who deserves to be considered good.”— Epictetus, amazon.com
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“...greet that which does not depend on us serenely and without regrets, and use this obstacle to practice another virtue.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“What is not good are ideals and rhetoric that don't have the possibility of changing the condition you analyze.”— Eric Dyson, theguardian.com
“Go back to your command and try to think of what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”— Ulysses S. Grant, americancivilwarstory.com
“Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Everyone deserves to feel the normal range of emotions without having to be depressed or anxious to the point that it interferes with enjoying life.”— Laura Gaffney, nytimes.com
“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts”— Nancy Rathburn, harpersbazaar.com
“If he’s got strong emotions about you – well, those strong emotions don’t come from nowhere. They come from lingering feelings about you.”— Nick Bastion, vixendaily.com