Quotes About Emotional

And I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side, what you really had to do was relieve their pain.

There was an invisible baton of failure her mother had passed down, and Nora had held it for a long time.

It's not clinical. The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new…Situations.

Ha estado usted sometido a mucha presión últimamente? No entendía bien: ¿a qué tipo de presión se refería?, ¿atmosférica?, ¿gravitacional? —Sí —dije—. A mucha. Por todas partes hay presión de una clase u otra.

I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.

Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around.

we live in a country where people believe implicitly in their right to bore the living shit out of absolutely everybody within haranguing distance with tales of their miserable, lonely, and inevitably self-deluding searches for personal fulfillment in the emotional desert that is our crass commercial culture.

our quest for intimacy we must move beyond our preoccupation with the physical and understand what each of the four aspects has to contribute to our relationships. Physical intimacy is limited. But emotional, intellectual, and spiritual intimacies are limitless, and relatively unexplored. And, truth be told, if you truly wish to experience the upper reaches of physical intimacy you must first explore and develop the depths of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual intimacy.

The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person's emotional center—their souls—to spiritually and physically respond.

I always used to say, "Herbs work on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of existence." Later I came to understand that they also work on the magical level.

St. John's Wort is indicated in chronic illness associated with chronic pain, nervous exhaustion, emotional depression, mental and physical weakness.

it is an achievement, too: to be wholly understood by one person. [Édouard Manet]

The first word...translates an affective state.

Meaning gives force and the more meaning this work has for you the more it will affect you emotionally and the more force will you obtain from it. For it is from the awakening of the emotional centre that the greatest force is derived.

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

The person with emotional scars not only has a self-image of an unwanted, disliked, and incapable person, he also has an image of the world in which he lives as a hostile place.

Therapeutic forgiveness cuts out, eradicates, cancels, makes the wrong as if it had never been. Therapeutic forgiveness is like surgery.

Ova žena je ?udljiva, vje?iti april, vesela je pa tmurna, pri?ljiva pa malorjeka, svakog jutra ustaje i na lijevu i na desnu nogu pa je ne odre?uje dan ve? trenutak, slu?ajno je ovdje, kivna kad se sjeti da je mogla biti na drugom mjestu, razdragana kad pomisli da ?e biti. Obi?na je samo kad zaboravi.

?utala je, pribijena uz mene, kao da traži zaštitu. Preboljevala je što su je njeni napustili. Navikavala se na mene. Sad nikoga nemamo, ni ona ni ja, ho?emo li biti dovoljni jedno drugome?

Tada mi je padala na um ?udna, obeshrabruju?a misao da je u teškom položaju ?ovjek koji je duhovno razvijeniji od drugih, ukoliko ga ne štiti položaj, i strah koji taj položaj daje. Postaje usamljenik: njegova su mjerila druk?ija, i nikome ne koriste a njega izdvajaju.

Ali ako ga i nisam odbio, želio sam da skrenem razgovor, nisam volio da iko kopa po meni.

So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together. It is not necessary to sympathize with the writer, to agree with what he's written. But it is necessary to walk alongside and stay in step. It's harder, he says, when the other person has a bad limp or stops and starts all the time or moves erratically. It is hardest of all when the story comes from a place the translator himself can't go.