#motion

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#crush #jealousy #repressing-emotions #school #jealousy

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#love-triangle #mixed-emotions #life

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way. ↗

— Tim Burton

#movies #life

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#discipline #emotion #life

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#emotion #meaning #memory #neuropsychology #life

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also... but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap. ↗

— Toba Beta

#emotional #evil #life #patient #resistance

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often. ↗

— Mark Schwahn

#emotion #happiness #life #life-lessons #life

Emotion is the poetry of life. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#life #poetry #life

I tried to make my life colorful with basic colors Red, Green and Blue....... ohh god... my perfection in blending made it white !!! now again confused…. should go with :( or :) ↗

— Saket Assertive

#emotion #life #philosophy #life

I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it. ↗

— Judith Orloff

#emotional #freedom #judith #orloff #sleep