Quotes About Emotions

A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

Authentic listening is not easy. We hear the words, but rarely do we really slow down to listen and to squint with our ears, to hear the emotions, fears, and underlying concerns. Kevin Cashman

It seems like people go into Judger whenever there's any kind of conflict,

You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.

The sheer intensity of a child's feelings means they cannot be repressed without severe consequences. The thicker the prison wall grow, says Miller, the more future emotional development is impeded. When that wall is especially impenetrable, and the pain behind it is overwhelming, cutting is the strategy some use to try to break through and achieve some sense of control.

Cutting is not attention seeking. It's not manipulation. It's a coping mechanism—a punitive, unpleasant, potentially dangerous one—but it works. It helps me cope with strong emotions that I don't know how to deal with. Don't tell me I'm sick, don't tell me to stop. Don't try to make me feel guilty, that how I feel already. Listen to me, support me, help me.

Cutting and eating disorders serve such deep-seated psychological and physiological needs that to treat only the symptoms—by force feeding or hiding all sharp implements—will generally only set up a power struggle between parent and child, patient and therapist. If the coping strategy one has depended on for so long is suddenly taken away, a cutter or anorexic or bulimic will feel even more overwhelmed and out of control as years of suppressed emotions come roaring to the surface.

Eu vivi muito à sombra da agonia de algumas pessoas. Hoje sou uma agoniada e ninguém me aguenta. Sou em estado de porre sem nunca ter bebido.

Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.

Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

When I was in love with her, with a lover's tendency to mythify the beloved did I know her better than I do now, when we know our limits? Now

Before I die I hope everything happens to me. I want to feel rotten and bawl, and then I want to feel good and laugh.

Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out.

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side.

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.