Quotes About Emotional

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

CHAPTER 7 The Fourth Subphase: Consolidation of Individuality and the Beginnings of Emotional Object Constancy FROM the point of view of the separation-individuation process, the main task of the fourth subphase is twofold: (1) the achievement of a definite, in certain aspects lifelong, individuality, and (2) the attainment of a certain degree of object constancy.

have maintained a rather personal interest in one specific aspect of the rich heritage that Freud bestowed upon us, namely, his emphasis on the fact that a lifelong, albeit diminishing, emotional dependence on the mother is a universal truth of human existence.

I crave the gift of recreational shallowness. The trick of knowing when to be cleverly trivial, lightweight; when to avoid emotional excess.

I may not be happy," she said, "but I will be .

I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I've always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I've always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it's so like me.

There comes a time when you must get the care and love that maybe you shied from showing others.

They had power and security, and were making millions. But on an emotional and spiritual level, many seemed bankrupt.

The study of self-injury makes clear that the mind and body are inextricably linked, each feedings from the other's nourishment or starving from the other's neglect. The body is, indeed, the temple of the soul. Cutters are living proof that when the body is ravaged, the soul cries out. And when the soul is trampled upon, the body bleeds.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

When trapped in a constant state of negative over-stimulation, anxiety becomes the norm in our lives. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.