Tea Obreht Quotes

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

I'm a very emotional person.

I'm an emotional guy. It's as simple as that.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

You're frozen when your heart's not open.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

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

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

I react emotionally to everything!

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.