Quotes About Emotional

To speak was to open a door into his carefully built fortress, and anything might rush inside.

Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.

The bottom line is that we are all inclined to denial when the truth is too costly—whether emotionally, intellectually, or financially. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36

Scott Bedbury, Starbucks' vice president of marketing, openly recognized that "consumers don't truly believe there's a huge difference between products," which is why brands must "establish emotional ties" with their customers

what I saw as the negative effect on women's minds of such mundane "tracking" activities as calorie counting, I had sensed that the reason so many tasks women are expected to do in society involve this kind of thinking (e.g. scanning, list making, judging themselves critically, "measuring up") had something to do with the suppressive effect this kind of thinking has on other, bolder kinds of intellectual or emotional leaps.

Os homens são estimulados visualmente pelo corpo feminino e são menos impressionáveis pela personalidade da mulher porque desde cedo são treinados para reagir assim, enquanto as mulheres são menos estimuladas em termos visuais e mais em termos emocionais por ser este o treinamento que recebem.

stop spending emotional energy protecting himself from the possible hurts of failure; instead he spends his energy reaching for the probable rewards of success.

These scars are the least important. The worst scars remain inside.

This is emotional blackmail.' 'No, it's life.

Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.

Is it a crime, she thought, to use some one else's funeral as your own? A crime to take over another's room and closet and life and cassettes and telephone number?

Statistics show that well over half the married couples in our culture divorce, and many of those who stick it out do so for reasons other than personal happiness—because it's such a hassle dividing everything, moving, having to start over—not to mention children and the emotional and financial aspects of splitting up.

She was thoroughly entrenched in her wounds, so much so that she had converted her wounds into a type of social currency

The expression "If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone else" is commonplace. Yet for many people loving oneself remains a vague notion

The word deserve causes immeasurable pain.

Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

You're always sorry 'after' you do something. You never think about how they feel or how you'd feel 'before'.

She felt disgusting and used and like she could never trust anyone ever again, and the last thing she wanted was food.

I've learned that home is not a place, it's a feeling. I can make the flat look as pretty as I can, put as many flower boxes on the window sill as I want, put a welcome mat outside the front door, hang a Home Sweet Home sign over the fireplace, and take to wearing aprons and baking cookies, but the truth is that I know I don't want to stay here forever.

What has she done, what has she done? She's cut herself off from people she truly needs. Yet despite the fear of what she's done, she knows it's the right thing. The atmosphere in the apartment was toxic. She had to get away from them, and wasn't it him who was slowly cutting himself off from her?

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. Save the drama for your mama I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. But I'm an emotional eater, she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. And I was real emotional in jail.

I think forgiveness doesn't happen overnight. I think it comes in increments. When someone has made your life hell, maybe you have to recover from the fear and anger first? Before you start working on the other thing.