Emotion Regulation Quotes

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

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

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I've been through it all.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Players need to control their emotions as much as possible.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus accumbens. Interestingly, pride is the most powerful of these emotions at triggering activity in these regions - except in the nucleus accumbens, where guilt and shame win out. This explains why it can be so appealing to heap guilt and shame on ourselves - they're activating the brain's reward center.

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

We know that there is a connection between our feelings and our brain.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.