Quotes About Emotions

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

You never put her in your heart.

As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Watch it, ' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.