Quotes About Emotional

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down — but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

He, like his brother, the sad Mikha'il, had a wound above the heart that never healed.

There are no marks left upon my body, but sometimes I feel as if my mind is nothing but a mass of scar tissue.

I realised I was witnessing the unprecedented sight of my father being teased.

You have my body, you have my heart, you even have my mind, but the spirit's another matter. We're on different levels there." "We don't have to be." "Enough, Tay," Khaster said. "You must leave it. Let's enjoy what time we have together here.

Daniel had passed the point where he could tell himself to drop Owen Winter's friendship. He'd tried it in the past, but Owen only had to appear again and Daniel would be powerless.

Sexual partners who dropped you without a word caused the most horrible of self-doubts.

Gone were the precise and mannered portraits he was famous for at home, which hung on the walls of patron galleries. Now, his paintings were undisciplined and fierce: no demure maidens in limpid bowers, but powerful sorceresses depicted against violent skies, cowering souls dismembered at their feet, soulscape monsters wheeling 'round their heads.

Daniel was his strength, his psychic eye. But it had been plucked out.

Wounded?" was all I could manage. "Yes," said Pat. "And you're wounded in the same place. That's what fathers do if they don't heal their wounds. They wound their children in the same place.

To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!

Everyone was emotionally affected. We developed a fear of the future which was very difficult to overcome. Even though I eventually went into some fairly good jobs, there was still this constant dread: everything would be cut out from under you and you wouldn't know what to do. It would be even harder, because you were older. .

If I appeal to you for emotional connection and you respond intellectually to a problem, rather than directly to me, on an attachment level I will experience that as "no response." This is one of the reasons that the research on social support uniformly states that people want "indirect" support, that is, emotional confirmation and caring from their partners, rather than advice.

Being co-dependent means we consistently put others' needs, wants, and demands before our own—in other words, emotional dependence.

Be kind, for everybody you meet is fighting a hard battle' attributed to Plato, and many others

All rape is an exercise in power (..). Rapists may operate within an emotional setting or within a dependent relationship that provides a hierarchical, authoritarian structure of its own that weakens a victim's resistance, distorts her perspective and confounds her will.

I've always employed a melodic style with my leads, placing strong emphasis on infusing romantic sensibilities into what I'm trying to say. Those big, epic melodies come from influences like Pink Floyd, Journey, Marillion... bands that have these guitar parts that are just soaring!

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.

Give me soft, fluffy pancakes and I can get over anything.

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

Soft Sounds' was about disassociating to preserve my mental health.