Quotes About Emotional

Nobody cares that youre smart and nobody cares that your kids dont have bruises.

Today's Italians Many Italians are naturally expressive and affectionate people. They tend to talk easily and rapidly, making descriptive gestures. They are generally family-loving people. Their warmth is especially noticeable in their treatment of babies and children, who are adored by their proud parents.

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child. p26

Ar trebui s? se pun? un gr?tar la intrarea în orice suflet. Ca s? nu se bage nimeni în el cu cu?itul.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

she eloquently explains how forgiveness could only surface after a whole sequence of emotional responses to trauma that began with the simple act of having compassion for her own pain.

All too often, we sanitize and simplify forgiveness, when in fact it's an arduous, exhausting task---messy, risky, and unpredictable.

Los hipocampos, al igual que los núcleos del septo y la corteza orbitofrontal, tienen la capacidad de modular los núcleos amigdalinos.

El dolor es inevitable porque es parte de la condición humana, mientras que el sufrimiento es una creación de la mente dualista.

Aprender a perdonarse es un paso imprescindible para sanar las heridas que hay en nuestra alma.»

Yo hablo con ella como si hablara conmigo mismo.

Y cuando hacíamos el amor, parecia que cada duro hueso mío se correspondía con un blando hueco de ella, que cada impulso mío se hallaba matemáticamente con su eco receptor

We were friends. It was as big a deal as being in love." She tried to think of a way to make Amelie understand. "It was a revelation, being friends like that. God, it was holy to me. But it wasn't being in love.

too. Like I'm an outside person watching me do things. Except when I'm with you. Then, I'm on the inside.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound.

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

As shown in the splendid recent biography by Harry Stout, Whitefield's style — popular preaching aimed at emotional response — has continued to shape American evangelicalism long after Whitefield's specific theology (he was a Calvinist), his denominational origins (he was an Anglican), and his rank (he was a clergyman) are long since forgotten.65

Is it possible that what we perceive to be relational, emotional, and spiritual problems are actually hearing problems -- ears that have been deafened to the voice of God? And it's that inability to hear His voice that causes us to lose our voice and lose our way.

You got to learn to accept the crap. Put it in a box in a corner and never open it again. Pretty soon, it'll go away." He knew that wasn't true,

Who can say when subversive play will subvert its own rules? Sometimes a jester's wit might cut too close to the bone and the king would lop off his head. The uncertainty — that straddling of the boundaries of real and unreal — is a source of the peculiar emotional power of subversive play.

When you learn the trading skill of risk acceptance, the market will not be able to generate information that you define or interpret as painful. If the information the market generates doesn't have the potential to cause you emotional pain, there's nothing to avoid. It is just information, telling you what the possibilities are. This is called an objective perspective—one that is not skewed or distorted by what you are afraid is going to happen or not happen.

I'd go home to a wife whom I was not sexually enjoying.

Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for