Witnessing Emotions Quotes

#1. I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach.

Michael Franti

#2. Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. If I were capable of human emotions, tears of joy would have been streaming down my face. You know that feeling you experience upon witnessing the birth of your first child? It was like that, only a thousand times better, because free burritos were involved.

Nathan Rabin

#4. I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

Dean Heller

#5. It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

Pablo Picasso

#6. Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

Andy Puddicombe

#7. All great enterprises are self-supporting.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. We didn't have a lot when I was growing up, and it's the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#9. I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'

Sigourney Weaver

#10. I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

Dave Barry

#11. The painting is usually finished before you are.

Rex Brandt

#12. In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

Richard Ford

#13. As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Quentin Crisp

#14. Sometimes, it is necessary for me to step back from my emotions and my life. I need to be the outsider looking in, sitting in the objective chair, as a witness. As opposed to being so entangled in my feelings, that they become a noose around my neck.

Jaeda DeWalt