Quotes About Emotional

prone to sudden mood swings.

I am not a good one to judge such things: I am too soft-hearted.

The alopecia dealt a blow to Rockefeller's morale—the psychological effect is crushing for most people

The hypercritical mother produced a son who was overly sensitive to criticism and suffered from a lifelong need for approval. One suspects that, in dealing with this querulous woman, George became an overly controlled personality and learned to master his temper and curb his tongue. It was the extreme self-control of a deeply emotional young man who feared the fatal vehemence of his own feelings, if left unchecked.

Apparently he was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

One is left to wonder whether Bill saw in Johnston a substitute son who might fill the large emotional void left by his formerly adoring eldest son.

She looked away and said nothing, but then eventually she nodded, in a way that could have been deeply contemplative, or ruefully determined, or somewhere in between. It was hard to tell.

Figuring out the solutions to puzzling mysteries seems to come so fast and so naturally for him, we just shake our heads in wonder and chalk it up as miraculous. We don't stop to consider the mental and emotional resources he has to marshal to pull that "miracle" off.

His sadness seemed complete. It had left him nothing, no proper enjoyment, no Saturday mornings. Sadness wore him like a tailored suit.

Frankly, you're the most homeless person--emotionally--I ever met.

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it.

To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.

On an emotional level many people resist the idea that random influences are important even if, on an intellectual level, they understand that they are.

Albert Einstein wrote, "One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.… Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

În ultim? instan??, îngrijitorilor poate c? le pas? cu adev?rat de ceilalÈ›i, dar nu sunt capabili s? le ofere mai mult. Este posibil ca acel ceva s? nu fie ceea ce îÈ™i doresc ceilalÈ›i de la ei, dar, pân? ce nu se vor elibera de trecutul lor toxic, e tot ceea ce pot face. Din acest punct de vedere, merit? mai degrab? compasiunea noastr?, decât judecat? È™i critic?.

Factorul cel mai frecvent care determin? dezvoltarea dependen?ei de a-i mul?umi pe al?ii este trauma din prima copil?rie asociat? cu sentimentul de a fi ignorat, respins sau abandonat de c?tre prima persoan? care s-a ocupat de copil.

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

There was rarely a moment when she wasn't having to work around the limitations of her body. Discomfort was a daily fact of life. Sometimes the ache was a nuisance. Other times, it was a storm that clawed and pulled and made it hard to concentrate on anything else. Mostly, Ling resented pain because it kept her from thinking, and thinking was what Ling did best.

Do you build up or do you destroy? What do you communicate to your husband when he walks in the door after work? Genuine encouragement, or dissatisfaction? Does your face light up when he talks to you, or does he see sneers and a lack of trust? A man can have everything outside of the home, but if the sincere respect of his wife and children is missing, he can be totally emasculated.

He was gone, but she wasn't free of him.