Janet Fitch Quotes

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

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

I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

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.

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.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

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

I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

The maximum number of emotions that I can cover is what I want to do.

In fact, one of the descriptions of the character in the book is that 'IT' was not very good at replicating human emotions. And that's something that is overlooked in general.

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

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.

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

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.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!