Quotes About Emotional

In their emancipation women are losing what has always made them emotionally superior to men, their tenderness and essential warmth of heart. It's happening, Jill girl. And men are getting so they don't care, and when that attitude comes to full flower we'll maybe have another Roman holiday on our hands, and another age of glory lost under a pall of ashes—

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which all human beings are heir. In the course of analytic time, it became apparent that -- with or without the burden of social justice -- the effort required to attain any semblance of inner freedom was extraordinary. Great literature, I then realized, is a record not of the achievement, but of the effort.

It is fortification from the inside out that is wanted—the kind accomplished only by those prepared to do batter for a piece of emotional ground that must be taken again and again before it is actually secured.

Experiences that don't involve touching, seeing, or feeling actual results, such as being presented with an abstract sheet of numbers, are shown to be non-impactful and easily forgotten.

All of your scars are on the inside, are they not?" he asked. I nodded. "Not so severe as yours, I feel." "Why? Because they may not have involved as much bodily pain?

Let each child have that's in our care. As much neurosis as the child can bear

Your work has been described as touching the soul of the reader. That's the way I felt. Feel. Honestly. You've touched my soul. I'm sorry if I sound like a middle-aged librarian at a book-autographing session.

There are no sides in suicide.

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

One who cares is one who listens.

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.