“People build emotional walls when they are stopped from expressing emotions.”
“The more you try to please your emotional whims, the more insane you will get. Emotions are to be understood and tamed, not to rule; if you completely followed all of your emotions all the time, you'd be incapable of functioning. However, we now live in a society based off emotion, which is very clearly self-evident if you just look outside. [...] In our society we have this ideal of fairness, of giving 50/50 to both sides, and the reality though is that being fair is saying the truth, and we don't actually follow this ideal”
“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.”
Source: Frankenstein
“Telling our personal stories, naming and acknowledging our experiences, it's fundamentally how human beings makes sense of our world... When we don't or can't tell us stories, they manifest in other ways. Emotions need a voice. Without it they seek out eventually.”
Source: The Dark Side of the Mind, The Prison Doctor Women Inside, The Prison Doctor, Quick Reads This Is Going To Hurt 4 Books Collection Set
“Unlocking the labyrinth of emotions, my book delves deep into your innermost feelings and provides, through biblical wisdom, advice that will help you heal and free yourself.”
Source: WHO YOU ARE With: Your vocational relationships
“Stuck with a pile of tumultuous feelings about her friend, your daughter handed those feelings off to you. Now she can go out and play happily, while you are the one with the overload of feelings. In his book Playful Parenting, Larry Cohen calls this the game of emotional hot potato. We are sitting ducks for this game because we are hardwired to empathize with our child. We have to make sure we don’t overreact because we were the last ones left with the potato.”
Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“The book "IN YOUR EMOTIONS" is a teaching book, very easy to read and to understand, based on biblical wisdom.”
Source: IN YOUR EMOTIONS: Healing and freeing yourself from emotional wounds
“After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home.”
Source: Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
“I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch.”
Source: Black Sheep
“I paused to appreciate the present moment, and my mind wandered to you, filling me with happiness. The earth felt alive with the memory of our time together, and I smiled, knowing that our bond will continue to flourish.
-learc-”