Quotes About Emotional

Be careful of broken people. Their sharp edges may cut you.

An awakened man who is driven by his heart and soul, can touch the heart of a woman he loves, without touching her

Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.

Most likely, your issue, is that NO ONE has REALLY been there for YOU in YOUR life.

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Our brain is not cut out for nonlinearities. People think that if, say, two variables are causally linked, then a steady input in one variable should always yield a result in the other one. Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For

it just meant not deriving your personal and emotional identity from your work, and viewing work as something optional, more like a hobby.

are supposedly underpaid because of their emotional reward from serving society.

they remained fragile to the emotional toll from the compliments they did not get

I enjoyed this book very much. It made me laugh in the right places, hang my head in places, fume in places and overall, admire her pluck, honesty and resilience. It took guts to write this. It must have been an exhausting process for the author but I hope it was cathartic too, and that the book proves useful to others similarly challenged.

Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

I accept the reality of my problems, but I am not defined by them. My problems are not my essence. My fear, pain, confusion, or mistakes are not my core.

Genuine self-esteem is what we feel about ourselves when everything is not all right.

The higher our self-esteem, the more likely we are to be creative in our work, which means the more successful we are likely to be. The higher our self-esteem, the more ambitious we tend to be, not necessarily in a career or financial sense, but in terms of what we hope to experience in life - emotionally, creatively and spiritually.

The child may practice self-repudiation as a survival strategy. He or she cannot be expected to understand the unfortunate long-range consequences

the healing that is needed is not between self and others but between adult-self and child-self.

Unhealing pain from the past, because of the sense of debilitation it often provokes and the defenses people typically set against it, represents yet another barrier in the quest for stronger self-esteem.

It is poor self-esteem that places us in an adversarial relationship to our well-being.