Quotes About Emotional

oh, you are crying! The Empire has fallen... I salute the Empire.

A daughter whose mother chose to leave her or was incapable of mothering may feel like a member of the emotional underclass, like a dispensable part of society whose needs the government has ignored. As a result, she often develops a sense of devaluation and unworthiness even more profound than that of the daughter whose mother has died.

While the daughter of a helpless father develops a hypercompetent physical self-reliance that encourages her to take responsibility for those around her, the daughter of a distant father becomes more emotionally independent. As an adult, she's wary of depending on others; feeling physically abandoned by one parent and emotionally abandoned by the other, she selects only a handful of people to whom she'll get close.

some wounds aren't easy to see.

If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief.

Maybe because he can read the pain of others... that he values saving them more than his own life.

I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

At the very heart of being a merchant is a desire to tell a story by making sensory, emotional connections. Once, twice, or 16,000 times.

To revile because one has been reviled—this is the real evil because it is the evil of the soul itself.

All people want is someone to listen.

Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

He was blaming her for being sick, and she kept repeating, 'I'm forty, do you hear? I'm forty and I've been through enough. I'm forty, it was too much.

when you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.

I get over it quickly and never lose control of myself.

we are betrayed in the very same close relationships where primal trust is possible. We can be truly betrayed only where we truly trust—by brothers, lovers, wives, husbands, not by enemies, not by strangers. The greater the love, the greater the betrayal. Trust has in it the seed of betrayal.

I know I will have to do the right thing and return her to her father, but it is ripping my heart apart.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

I like to believe that there is an extra warm corner of hell for these fuckers who traffic in emotional misery.

Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy.

Ask the Divine to replace any energies that aren't your own—whether these energies are emotional only, mental only, or a partnership of the two—with a healing stream of grace. (The Spirit- to-Spirit technique given in chapter 4 is a good way to separate and release others' emotional energies.) Request also that your own feelings and beliefs, those lodged in and pertinent to your spiritual self, become animate and accessible.

I propose that some of our health problems, as well as problems in other life areas, originate from receiving inadequate protection in utero, such as might occur if our mom didn't want us, wasn't loved by others, or didn't love herself.