Quotes About Emotional

And once he was gone, I filled the void by Google-stalking him when I should have been writing. So many of our destructive behaviors take root in an emotional void, an emptiness that calls out for something to fill

a person could walk around in a prison of his or her own making and never be behind bars.

From the corner of her eye, she watched Clay walk to his wagon, where he'd find no shade. Isolated. Alone. How simple it would be to prepare him a plate and walk to the wagon to give it to him. How difficult to step into his world of loneliness.

in time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting

It would imply an intimacy we do not share.

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

And Clara was devastated. She had as yet grown no hedge around the little rose garden of her extreme sensibility; she was still absurdly vulnerable. She

To establish a bridge of attunement, we rely on many neural systems that receive and send social and emotional information. We use all of this information to create theories about what is on the minds of others.

When We Are Very Little, We Learn How to Feel about Ourselves and about Life by the Reactions of the Adults Around Us It is the way we learn what to think about ourselves and about our world. Now, if you lived with people who were very unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learned a lot of negative things about yourself and about your world.

Children often respond to the mental atmosphere of the adults around them.

overweight person seeks protection from hurts, slights, criticism, abuse, sexuality or sexual advances, and life in general. Louise had observed in her own life that when she would feel insecure and not at ease, she would put on a few pounds. Then, the excess weight would go away

Did your childhood circumstances teach you to believe, "Nobody loves me"? Then you are sure to be lonely. Even when you bring a friend or relationship into your life, it will be short-lived.

Who hurt you, once, so far beyond repair that you would greet each overture with curling lip?

In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness.

You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out.

It was no use telling her he understood. Or that it was all right. She'd earned the right to no easy answer.

So that the boy grew an outer hull to withstand assault. But while those skins saved tender young souls, Gamache knew, they soon stopped protecting and became the problem. Because while the hard outer shell kept the hurt at bay, it also kept out the light. And inside the frightened little soul became something else entirely, nurtured only in darkness.

Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they'd continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us what to do, directing our actions even years later.

my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they develop a great kindness. You're

Be careful," Gamache whispered. "You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite.

when put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.

Equanimity and indifference. I think that's the worst of the near enemies, the most corrosive. Equanimity is balance. When something overwhelming happens in our lives we feel it strongly but we also have an ability to overcome it.

She sounds like an emotional vampire," said Myrna, at last. "A what?" "I ran into quite a few in my practice. People who sucked others dry. We all know them. We're in their company and come away drained, for no apparent reason.