Difficult Emotions Quotes

True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

If you're a victim, you're not happy. You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's even difficult to be content.

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.

The first love is the difficult love.

Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times.

Nothing wrong with changing your mind. That's a very unwaffling thing to say: "Nothing wrong..." Who am I to say that there's nothing wrong with it? Maybe something is wrong with changing your mind. Anyway, love is very, very difficult. I love. But probably because I hate myself on some deep, sick level, it makes loving difficult. But I do try.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I'm not used to normal. I'm used to disaster. I don't know, as messed up as he is, he's also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I'm accustomed to working for love.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

Love is never not going to be a problem.

Sometimes it's hard not to feel really negative.

Love isn't always pretty, it's not perfect and it's messy and it hurts and sometimes as much as you want to say you love someone, you have to say I wish I didn't love you.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'