Disapointment

While a relationship with a principled human being can certainly surpass the relationship with a pet, the fact that so many humans disappoint gives pets a potential edge they wouldn't otherwise have. - Michael Hurd

. Relationships with pets alone are not fulfilling.

Sink or Swim

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. - Ann Landers


Then asked what benefit it provides.

Peaceful Mind

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. - Peter McWilliams


Be a pacifist when it comes to your mind.

Lack of Self

Immature love is a symptom of too little self. An emotionally immature person doesn’t feel comfortable and secure enough with him or her self to go through life without a romantic partner. He needs a romantic partner to “complete” his self. If the romantic partner pulls or grows away from him, he becomes threatened and lashes out in some way. This is what’s going on in cases of physical or verbal abuse. Physical and verbal abuse are tactics of intimidation. The person who victimizes his “loved one” with these tactics is not being “selfish.” Quite the opposite: he’s exhibiting a lack of self. - Michael J. Hurd

..... Worth contemplating.

Shared

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy. - Honduran Proverb

..... Share in the good times and the bad.

Strong Feelings

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. - William Carleton

..... Do not submit to your feelings unless they are positive.

Brush It Off

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it. - Randy K. Milholland


Like he says, remember it doesn't have anything to do with you - brush it off.

Underdogs

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. - Noam Chomsky


To find the source of this propaganda look to the universities.

Heartstrings

Beware the pull on your heartstrings - it's often the purse-strings that are actually being reached for. - Barbara Mikkelson


A propaganda technique which works well on folks who fail to use reason to moderate their emotions.

Jealousy Is a Disease

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. - Robert Heinlein


If you don't trust the one you love then maybe its not love.

Sometimes It Rains

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. - Bob Dylan 

  Some care if they get wet and some don't.

River of Tears

When someone hurts you; cry a river; build a bridge; and get over it! - Richard Middleton 


The sooner the better.

Kindness

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. - Samuel Johnson


There is seldom a reason not to be kind to people, animals and things.

Quackable

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath - Jacob Braude


Quack, quack.

The Source of Happiness

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. - Charles Caleb Colton


Happiness must come from within, not from outside.


(Other posts on Emotions)

Light Your Fire

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. - Denis Waitley 


Others get excited to see excitement.


(Other posts on Motivation)

Mood Changes

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. - Thomas Carlyle  


Make sure it is not just your mood which has changed before thinking it is bad fortune.

Dancing Common Sense

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James 

It's only common sense that you should be concerned if you loose your sense of humor. Political correctness is a sure-fire sign.

(Other posts on Emotions) 

Judges Criteria

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. - Barack Obama 


I thought Judges were supposed to judge according to the law - that judging by emotion was legislating from the bench.


(Other posts on Law) 

Love and Friendship

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. - Samuel Johnson 


 What a wonderful toast over dinner with friends and loved ones!


(Other posts on pleasure)