682 quotes found
“Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo”
“These times are hard, but I won't walk away jaded, darker, different. I feel. I cry to heal. If you saw me in those moments, maybe you'd think I was a mess. But I don't call it a mess. I call it st...”
“Dont break my heart. Crush it. Destroy it. Let me wallow it until I feel hollow in it. Ill bash in the pain. Ill scream your name and then one day I suddenly wont.”
“Loving you was easy. Hating you was hard. Falling out was insane.”
“Three years later and Im still writing about you. I dont know if that says more about you or I.”
“I pushed him against his Jeep, looked him dead in the eye and kissed him. He asked if he could come up, and I just walked up the steps and said, not yet. That was the moment I knew I loved him.”
“Im not thankful for being fucked over, Im thankful for what I took from it. What I learned. What I taught myself in that particular moment. I'm grateful someone was able to take me there and let me...”
“For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them ”
“How can you live without everything touching you?”
“Women. You have to love them the way they are or they'll drive you insane.”
“Trying to explain feelings that are foreign to your heart, make communication daunting, even frightful. How does one express sensations that cower in the corners, fearful they will not be accepted ...”
“In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, q...”
“In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in wai...”
“Words are more forgettable, but the emotional effects they have on the person hearing them stay engraved in his or her memory.”
“Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks out with clenched teeth and weeps; the sinking feeling that doesn't know where it comes from or...”
“We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we w...”
“I want to get lose in your eyes and be brought back to reality with your kisses.”
“Love blinds me so deep and dark, I see the world full of innocence, thoughts filled with affection, time brimming with hope and future flowing with my dreams.”
“Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.”
“Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.”
