Emotions Psychology Quotes

#1. Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

Jane Hersey

#2. Empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).

Mikkel Wallentin

#3. Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

Tariq Ramadan

#4. Feeling your way to knowledge rather than thinking your way, often results in better learning.

Sam Owen

#5. I always said I would have gone in to psychology, or maybe the FBI. I'm really in to and interested in humans and their minds and emotions. I think that's another reason I like songwriting. It's amazing the stories you can tell about someone, just from a little people watching

Jessica Harp

#6. The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

Hugh Ferriss

#7. It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.

Frederick Lenz

#8. As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.

Alexandra York

#9. We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

Alaric Hutchinson

#10. When people seem angry, sometimes they are simply upset and hurting. Asking the right questions helps them to work through it.

Sam Owen

#11. Fear of confronting emotions is like fear of reading road signs.

Sam Owen

#12. Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed - they're to be acknowledged.

Jennifer Lane

#13. I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

Jane Hersey

#14. You are too sensitive", says the emotionally immature ignorant without empathy.

Robin Sacredfire

#15. When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means they'll either get ready to fight you or ready to flee from you.

Sam Owen

#16. A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.

Dave Davies

#17. Who can understand the covert world of the emotions, the secret life of the mind?

Roberta Parry

#18. All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.

Roshan Sharma

#19. The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.

Dylan Evans

#20. Positive psychology is the study of what constitutes excellence in individuals, communities, and workplaces. It incorporates the study of productivity, resilience, motivation, emotions, strengths, team dynamics, and more.

Margaret Greenberg

#21. Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits.

Sam Owen

#22. We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.

Sam Owen

#23. we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

Stephen Grosz

#24. Anger usually only serves us, and even then, only very fleetingly.

Sam Owen

#25. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Stefan Molyneux

#26. We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it.

Sam Owen

#27. Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Neel Burton

#28. When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.

Sharon Salzberg

#29. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Neel Burton

#30. Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.

Sam Owen

#31. Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.
The Nature of Emotions (2001)

Robert Plutchik

#32. Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it's often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.

Sam Owen

#33. Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

John E. Sarno

#34. Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.

Abhijit Naskar

#35. Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.

Allan Lokos

#36. The energy of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions collectively create the frequency of our vibrational aura.

Alaric Hutchinson

#37. Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Idries Shah

#38. Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

Sam Owen

#39. Within our emotions lie answers, truths and instructions.

Sam Owen

#40. The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.

C. G. Jung

#41. Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

George W. Crane

#42. Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.

Sam Owen

#43. Life is a fierce duel with emotions and a slow war with psychology.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#44. Positive simply means unifying energies, while negative simply means separating energies. It's not about what's good or bad, right or wrong. It's about
embracing what feels good and brings us closer to peace.

Alaric Hutchinson

#45. The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters.

Asa Don Brown

#46. Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Brad Holland

#47. Emotions are the road signs to your happiness.

Sam Owen

#48. We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

P.D. Ouspensky

#49. The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.

Vironika Tugaleva

#50. Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.

Sam Owen

#51. Emotions, moods, impulses, ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves, at times, in a bipolar mind.

H.g.

#52. It's better not to hold your feelings inside too much and express them to a dear one freely, than to pay thousands of dollars to a psychiatrist for the same outburst of emotions later. Emotions are a bonding mechanism for humans. So, use 'em, abuse 'em and utilize 'em.

Abhijit Naskar

#53. Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms)

Wilhelm Reich