Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

That's me, I'm emotional.

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Taking ownership of your feelings is so vital to getting better.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways.

When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.