Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

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

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

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

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

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

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

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

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.