Quotes About Emotional

Children under the age of 16, 17, or even 18 are generally not psychologically or emotionally mature enough to consent fully to sexual relationships with adults, or to participate in them on an equal footing.

I want to emphasize that rape is about human beings, not statistics.

The family is affected when the relatives and friends can no longer tolerate the consequences of alcoholism and avoid the alcoholic and his/her family. The family is also directly affected by the alcoholic's behavior. Unable, without help, to counteract this, the family members get caught up in the consequences of the illness and become emotionally ill themselves.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

A man can endure the worst pain — of others.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

I had accepted beatings, loneliness, and near-starvation as normal because those things had helped me to survive. Now when these women undressed me, it felt like they were removing a shield that had become a part of me. As they peeled off layer after layer, I began to feel my age and started crying. With my tears I shed each fiber of responsibility I had in caring for my sisters and brother. I was finally being cared for as a child, and so the child inside me opened wide.

What happened to you as an infant and young child powerfully shapes how you see yourself and other people, what expectations you have for relationships, how you feel about yourself, and what defensive (and healthy!) habits you've learned.

Children who are emotionally abused and neglected face similar and sometimes worse mental health problems as children who are physically or sexually abused.

the quality of the mothering we receive so powerfully shapes our development.

Nurturing touch has all sorts of physiological benefits, including promoting the growth of the nervous system, stimulating the immune system, and decreasing stress hormones, but let's focus on the emotional and psychological value. It is through nurturing touch that we feel loved, soothed, and protected.

He had not felt loved by his mother and had experienced difficulty in receiving love since, so he didn't have some of the healing vectors that can counteract traumatic events. He had resources to help others but not the resources to save himself.

From an evolutionary perspective, we first developed a survival brain (called the reptilian system), then an emotional brain (the limbic system), and finally a thinking brain (the neocortex).

The surrender was a turning point for me. That summer I cried nearly every day. It was part of letting up the emotional component that had been only partially present in much of my earlier recovery of memories, and the beginning of a deeper grieving for my losses. The crying itself did not resolve things for me, but it was part of what prepared me for what came later, when the opportunity presented itself to really cleanse the wounds with a qualified trauma therapist.

But because many of us are afraid of being hurt, we have decided to build only walls. No doors, no windows, no peep holes. Just walls.

Don't be afraid to cut people out of your life if they are causing you pain

There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

Of course you understand. You're a very empathetic person. That's why you're such a great mother." "I'm not a mother yet." "You'd make a great mother. You're kind, you're caring, and you'd put the

I'm haunted. We all are, I guess. We're parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will follow and demean us until we too roam a quiet lifeless world alongside them — unable to speak — our histories written in beach sand.

Es otro de los inconvenientes de padecer una desgracia: al que la sufre los efectos le duran mucho más de lo que dura la paciencia de quienes se muestran dispuestos a escucharlo y acompañarlo, la incondicionalidad nunca es muy larga si se tiñe de monotonía

las personas desdichadas se empeñan en averiguar muchas veces la magnitud de su desdicha, o en indagar vidas ajenas para abstraerse de las suyas.

Conversion, like conquest, can be a process of crossing over into the domain–territorial, emotional, religious, or cultural–of someone else and claiming it as one's own.

Listening is only powerful and effective if it is authentic. Authenticity means that you are listening because you are curious and because you care, not just because you are supposed to. The issue, then, is this: Are you curious? Do you care?

No te tomes nada personalmente porque, si lo haces, te expones a sufrir por nada. Los seres humanos somos adictos al sufrimiento en diferentes niveles y distintos grados; nos apoyamos los unos a los otros para mantener esta adicción. Hemos acordado ayudarnos mutuamente a sufrir. Si tienes la necesidad de que te maltraten, será fácil que los demás lo hagan.