Tamora Pierce Quotes

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

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.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

I'm very connected to my own family, and maybe I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. I'm fortunate that my parents taught me to look further into why I might feel a certain way; it was normal to expose things.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.

Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

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

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.