Quotes About Feelings and Emotions
If you try to push away your feelings and live in a state of denial, then it’s just going to be worse when you finally do feel it. If you numb yourself, you’re only putting off the bad feelings until a later time.
It’s better to feel them in the present (when it’s safe to do so).
So let yourself feel the feelings. Feel the sadness, feel the hurt, feel all of the emotions you’ve been carrying.
And let it go. Breathe into the feeling.
And slowly, slowly, the feelings will start to dissolve.
At first, you might feel worse. Maybe you’ll wish you could go back to filling the void with anything except this emotion.
But this is part of being human, all these emotions. There are good days and bad days. One cannot exist without the other.
You’re allowed to feel sad and have negative emotions. You don’t have to be happy all the time (or pretend to be).
Sometimes when we’re in the middle of growing in some way it just feels painful and uncomfortable, and we wish we could go back to the way things were. But nothing lasts forever. Impermanence is the only thing guaranteed in life.
- Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman ☀️🌻
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs 💻❤️
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin 🌌💪
- Embrace the glorious mess that you are. – Elizabeth Gilbert ✨🤗
- Turn your wounds into wisdom. – Oprah Winfrey 💭🎓
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela 🛡️🚀
- Feel the feeling but don’t become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it. – Crystal Andrus 🌊🔓
- Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. – Winston Churchill 🦁🔑
- Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. – Nora Ephron 🎭👑
- We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. – Max Depree 🐛🦋
- Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama 😊💥
- The only journey is the journey within. – Rainer Maria Rilke 🛤️🧭
- To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett 🏆🌟
- Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt 🌉✨
- Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own. – Michelle Obama 📚💖
- Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso 🎨🌈
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 🌀🌟
- We are not our best intentions. We are what we do. – Amy Dickinson 🎯🌱
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche 🖋️💡
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle 💡🌌
