Valerie Bertinelli Quotes

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

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.

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

I've been ignoring my feelings lately. That works pretty well. Might also settle for less this week, just to try it out.

There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

You know, the emotion - it comes in my art. The kind of person I am, I can deal with things, and I do and I can, but I'm not a crier.

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

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

You can't heal what you can't feel!

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

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.