Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

I just love human emotion and faces.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.

Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I'm ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I'm happy, you'll know I'm happy, and if I'm mad, you'll know I'm mad just by looking at me.

My body language, it doesn't have anything to do with my coaches or my teammates.

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

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

They say I have no emotions, but I'm excited even if you can't see it.