Quotes About Emotional

I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone

Él tenía razón, después de todo; no dejó una cicatriz, aunque parte de mí desearía que lo hubiese hecho. Por lo menos tendría alguna evidencia, alguna justificación de esta permanencia. Las manchas son aún peores cuando eres el único que puede verlas.

I've been feeling something else. Like I'm about to be sucked into something powerful and painful. Vortexy.

I'm crying out of gratitude.

I think I need to avoid the world today. There's no way I can adult.

WHAT REALLY KNOCKS ME OUT IS A BOOK THAT, WHEN YOU'RE ALL DONE READING IT, YOU WISH THE AUTHOR THAT WROTE IT WAS A TERRIFIC FRIEND OF YOURS AND YOU COULD CALL HIM UP ON THE PHONE WHENEVER YOU FELT LIKE IT. —J. D. Salinger G

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

MARGIE: You want to know if she'll survive? She'll survive! Living with someone who doesn't want to be there would do more harm.

That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day.

Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death.

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

She wasn't quite at the point of stepping out onto the motorway to play with the oncoming traffic, but it was close.

went to the kitchen to get a toaster pastry. Because when I am feeling down, a toaster pastry usually helps.

I'm utterly convinced that the key to lifelong success is the regular exercise of a single emotional muscle: gratitude.

The past never leaves you. You carry it around with you for as long as you live, like a pale, stubborn worm lodged there in your gut, keeping you up at night.

Children who fail to learn basic love and trust at home are handicapped later in mastering the assertiveness, initiative, and autonomy that are the foundation of successful adulthood.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

Where the hell would I go without you, Kate? No matter where I went, you would be there in my head. I would miss you every moment of my life.

I dipped my head so I could look into his eyes. The monster at my table looked ready to cry. I'd managed to make a teenager depressed. Maybe I could shoot some fish in a barrel for an encore.

At some point the fact that I was carrying my aunt the City Eater in my knife sheath would likely hit me and then I would have a nice nervous breakdown.

He invited me to his pity party, and I really want to leave.

I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life.