Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

There's times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I'll try and force something and do something.

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.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

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

The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you away from being able to access your upper rational brain and think and assess what to do. It essentially disables your ability to think.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

I get angry very fast, and it's intense. I start breathing heavily, and don't like it.

I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Many people don't know about the power of good feelings, and so their feelings are reactions or responses to what happens to them. They have put their feelings on automatic pilot, instead of deliberately taking charge of them.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.