Jane Austen Quotes

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.