Quotes About Emotional

bathetic, grotesque. At the moment of his

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

I wanted her note to say that I was a red hole dug out of the guts of her, a seeping wound that hadn't healed a lick in the twenty-odd years since she had left me.

Forgiving him was like balm on an old hurt place, and it felt sweeter than his apology. Sweeter even than the moment I'd said all the things I'd held in my mouth for twenty angry years. Forgiving him felt like relief.

God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.

maintain that one of the reasons some adult children estrange themselves, or claim to have narcissistic parents, is that they experience their parents' demand for intimacy as more than they can fulfill, and in some cases, more than they should be asked to bear.

Men whose own mothers were overly demanding, needy, or restrictive can feel especially frightened by their wive's sudden escalation in needs and requirements for help. A woman may be suddenly caught off guard by this new demonstration of anger, withdrawal, or blame in response to her reasonable requests for help and participation.

While many say that finding compassion for those who hurt them is one of the hardest things they've ever done, others discover that it's freeing in ways they hadn't imagined. It binds them to a common humanity where we are all in some measure flawed, torn, and hurt. And dying for understanding.

If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off, there was a smaller part just hoping to leave for the night without contributing to someone's lifetime of hurt.

If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically.

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.

Patience is important not only in waiting for the right time to start a relationship, but also in allowing it to unfold at a healthy pace. Impatience rushes everything. It urges us to skip the time and attention a healthy friendship requires and to jump straight into emotional and physical intimacy.

Withdrawal is an essential feature of depression, and once withdrawn a person can grow steadily more awkward in company.

because of them, he worked all the harder in his thirties and forties to "make himself," emotionally as well as materially, and go on to do the special work he longed for. Perseverance and forbearance became core aspects of Lincoln's character, and he would one day give the same advice his law partner Stephen Logan gave him, that what matters is whether a person "keeps up his labors and efforts until middle life.

Anyway, food is only a temporary solution. You eat, you get fat, and you're blue again!

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Le hacía acordar y le hacía doler todavía, sin embargo se sentía tan golpeado que casi podía recordar los golpes que vendrían. Su miedo era el recuerdo del dolor futuro. Eso.

I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

when everyone is used to being open and honest, then no one will get hurt by such things

He didn't know what I meant. Intellectually he did, I think. But not in the way we understand it." "Lucky him." "He just listened. He was sympathetic and nonjudgmental." "That's good." "Is it? If someone you care about tells you they are constantly thinking of ending it all, shouldn't you be unsympathetic and very judgmental?

Trust is difficult to sustain when we build a rich inner world of drama that we do not share with those around us.

Repetition is the mute language of the abused child.

When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.