Quotes About Emotional

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care.

My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.

sending me into a climax that left me wrecked in body and whole in spirit.

Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim's perceptions.

As long as this child within is not allowed to become aware of what happened to him or her, a part of his or her emotional life will remain frozen, and sensitivity to the humiliations of childhood will therefore be dulled.

In some cases, the partner of an abuser may eventually come to the conclusion that something is wrong in the relationship but not know what it is. This is most common if the abuser is covert. The abuser may quietly counter nearly every comment and enthusiasm the partner expresses.

You get conditioned to it and confused by it, and then you don't know what's going on.

Abuse is rejection. It is painful and toxic.

Abusive statements are lies about you which are told to you. They violate your boundaries. The abuser in effect invades your mind, makes up a "story" about your motives, and then tells it to you. No human being has the right to do that to another.

Don't carry the bruises or pass on bruises.

We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.

respond to stressful situations by protecting themselves and their young through nurturing behaviors—the tend part of the model—and forming alliances with others, particularly women—the befriend part. Women bond around helping one another through troubled times. The more they talk about their troubles, the closer they feel. Because emotional bonds serve as a woman's primary

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

defines trauma as "any experience which stuns us like a bolt out of the blue; it overwhelms us, leaving us altered and disconnected from our bodies

He was pleasantly hysterical like a young girl at a wedding.

Instead of walling off a conversation and saying you'd rather talk about something else, you bring in a deeper and more comprehensive level of analysis. This highlights your intelligence, but it also highlights your emotional engagement.

Acknowledge the importance of what they're saying. This means that what is important to them has an emotional impact on you. Remember, people are always looking to be acknowledged, appreciated and respected.

Great storytelling and improv are all about setting the right framework with intimate details and telling the story that gets the right emotional payoffs from the crowd.

Burnout is nothing more than your body reaching the end of its physical, emotional, and mental resources.

We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

Stella realized then that Charlie's unhappiness had locked him out of this community as effectively as hers had, and she felt a dull sense of confirmation, she felt she might have known, this is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth.

I hate myself so much I want to stick a knife in my heart.