Quotes About Emotional

The fact is that when we forgive someone we not only release them from the burden of our anger and its possible consequences; we release ourselves from the burden of whatever it was they had done to us, and from the crippled emotional state in which we shall go on living if we don't forgive them and instead cling to our anger and bitterness.

Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.

You can't protect my sanity by destroying yours.

Dangerous, she thought, this was so dangerous. Too many pieces of her in his hands. She had to hold something back, some part of her that would protect her against the nights she woke to find him lying awake, a faraway expression on his face. Because it would happen—no matter the passionate tenderness growing ever deeper between them, she was second best, would always be second best.

There was no bond, but she reached him in ways no one else ever had. "If you ever find your true mate," he said, "I won't allow you freedom." He didn't have such goodness in him.

I'll have an aneurysm with that much togetherness.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.

It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.

If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms of art that express a biblical worldview.

After my last call I hung up the telephone and cried softly. So many knew, but nobody helped.

As though my self-esteem wasn't low enough from years of abuse, try as I might, I couldn't even get forgiving right!

She was also correct that I was guided by my fear and my hope that my good behavior would buy my mother's love. It hadn't.

I have since learned that forgiveness does not protect us from past, present and future abuse.

Emotional abuse is the cruelest and longest lasting of all." He goes on to say, "When your self-concept has been shredded, when you have been deeply injured and made to feel that the injury was all your fault, when you look for approval to those who cannot or will not provide it—you play the role assigned to you by your abusers.

This was excellent news. It had only been a few weeks since her attack so I hoped there would still be scars.

He's crying a little now, from the shock and the shame and the fear and the humiliation and the pain. Tunde recognizes those feelings; he's known them since the first day Enuma touched him. He has written in the scribbled notes for his book: "At first we did not speak our hurt because it was not manly. Now we do not speak it because we are afraid and ashamed and alone without hope, each of us alone. It is hard to know when the first became the second.

kurou, which could be translated to "suffering." But the English word seemed to skim the surface, whereas kurou went deeper. It referred to a guttural moaning, a piercing pain throughout your bones.

I just put my head down and hold onto this crumbling fucking family with my bare hands. And I'm failing at it. I really am. I'm failing so bad and I don't know how to stop.

Fear is nothing but anticipation of pain, be it physical,emotional,spiritual, or mental

Adventism was born because of a wrong calculation about the Second Coming . . . fuelled by an intense, emotional, highly personal, fervent, and ultimately right desire to be with Jesus.

Hurting people, hurt people.

Tod didn't laugh at the man's rhetoric. He knew it was unimportant. What mattered were his messianic rage and the emotional response of his hearers. They sprang to their feet, shaking their fists and shouting.

Maybe she did bring you into the world and raise you. But just 'cos she's your "family" doesn't mean it's okay for her to do or say whatever she wants. It's never okay. Expecting someone to smile and say thank you to their family, when that "family" is just stepping all over them--- that's just abuse. It's just a curse.