#emotion

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#emotion #inspirational #love #neuropsychology #science

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ↗

— Jean Racine

#emotions #feeling #life #thinking #tragedy

So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#emotional-pain #guilt #rape #raped #shame

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness. ↗

— George Eliot

#infatuation #life

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#emotions #families #family #family-therapy #memoir

She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#emotions #life

The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying. ↗

— Carrie Vaughne

#humor #life #supernatural #truth #life

You don’t get one chance at life but many over one lifetime. ↗

— Elize Amornette

#elize-amornette #elize-amornette-author #private-emotions-trilogy #romance-book #romance-novel-books

You can't resent another person for not giving you what you didn't ask for. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#life #relationships #life