Quotes About Emotional

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage to being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

If you truly love someone, it can seem a deep form of betrayal to stay integrated and healthy, in essence, in their absence or sadly waning presence. What does that ability indicate, after all, about the true depths of your love? If you can witness their demise and survive the loss, does that not imply that the bond was shallow and temporary, and even replaceable? If you were truly bonded, should not it destroy you (as it sometimes does)?

The worst of all possible snakes is psychological, spiritual, personal, internal.

We have very irrational souls, very powerful, romantic, emotional, highly motivated souls.

There are only two major reasons for resentment: being taken advantage of (or allowing yourself to be taken advantage of), or whiny refusal to adopt responsibility and grow up. If you're resentful, look for the reasons.

En estado natural, por decirlo de algún modo, a los seres humanos no les gusta pensar como lógicos, ni siquiera como empiristas. Hace falta entrenamiento para pensar así. Pero aun en ausencia de ese entrenamiento, seguimos pensando, aunque lo hacemos de manera más subjetiva, como seres -poco razonables-, idiosincráticos, emocionales que habitan unos cuerpos de tamaño determinado, con unas propiedades particulares y constreñidas.

Given that you just raised Bill's level of logical certainty to at least a 9 and his emotional certainty to at least a 7, does it make sense for you to take a shot and ask for the order again? After all, if it turns out that Bill has a low action threshold, isn't there a shot that you could slide in under the wire, as the phrase goes, and close him? The answer is no, absolutely not.

That sort of bottled enthusiasm makes a massive impact on someone emotionally, and it's one of the earmarks of sounding like an expert. Just always remember to never stay in any one tonality for too long, or else the prospect will become bored—or in scientific terms, habituate—and ultimately tune out.

Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister, the freaking MAILMAN--I don't need it from you, too. All I ask is that you promise me one thing.' 'What?' 'Just water the plants while I'm gone, all right?' 'You don't have plants, Tad.' 'I know. I just always wanted to say that.

Or maybe...their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.

James Jackson actually made menacing faces at the Quakers in the gallery, calling them outright lunatics, then launched into a tirade so emotional and incoherent that reporters in the audience had difficulty recording his words.