Emotions Quotes

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1. Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom. Judith Orloff.


2. The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. Donald Calne.


3. The fundamental philosophical principle of Buddhism is that all our suffering comes about as a result of an undisciplined mind, and this untamed mind itself comes about because of ignorance and negative emotions. Dalai Lama.


4. Feelings are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. Judith Wright
5. An emotion is both a mental and a physical event. Nathaniel Branden


6. How often in your life have you been criticized for having the feelings you do?. Did this make you feel invalidated?. How often do you simply stuff your feelings and agree with others, saying yes, when you really mean no. Catherine Cardinal.


7. An exceptionally positive emotional response indicates that you're summoning the divine energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in nonresistant manner. Wayne Dyer.


8. The anger-guilt cycle is common. Parent-child relationships are very complex; those who find themselves in this cycle may repeat it for decades. They may try to think of what they can do differently, trying to come up with a strategy that will make their next time with the parent more fulfilling. They may try to ignore their own feelings, make excuses for a particular statement or response. Marilyn J. Sorensen.


9. Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. Brian Tracy


10. Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling. Alan Marlatt.


11. A clear understanding of a negative emotion dismi sees it . Vernon Howard


12. To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation. Intuition is a neutral from of information that allows you to soberly gauge the validity of your worries. If you tune in and find out they're unfounded, you'll be relieved. If they are founded, you can develop a strategy to deal with them. Judith Orloff.


13. I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people. Virginia Satir.


14. What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others. Abraham H. Maslow.


15. An emotion reflects the perceiver's value response to different aspects of reality. Nathaniel Branden


16. The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great. Abraham H. Maslow.


17. Emotions do not come as the result of an observation or an experiment but rather as the result of the things we say to ourselves about those perceptions or situations. Marilyn J. Sorensen.


18. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.. his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein.


19. Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them. Alan Marlatt.


20. But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. Danile Goleman.