“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.” PeopleWantWritingHas BeensFeelingsMightPastNextParentEmotionCareersFourChildhoodLetting GoWho You AreUpsetYour ChildrenTiesRelatedOur RelationshipI Want You Author:James W. Pennebaker
“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.” PeopleFirstsChildrenFactsLove IsEmotionOur LivesChildhoodDogReturnUniqueRemainsLasting Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
“But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.” NeedsEnoughEmotionBehindsChildhoodAdultsSakeGatesAdulthoodUnbearableHappy Childhood Author:Eva Figes
“What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.” KnowsNeedsFactsUseFeelingsLife IsLiteratureFeltMy OwnEmotionChildhoodMy Own LifeChildren's Literature Author:Judy Delton
“Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.” MindChildrenAgeSpiritMotherCertainEmotionEducationChildhoodPersonalityDevilSensibilityProvokingInfantDeformityMoustache Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
“Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.” PeopleSelfReasonShowsActionUnderstandingEmotionTeacherChildhoodFashionPerceptionAppreciateFunctionBasesDepthMaturityInvolvementEmergingSelf CenterednessCenterednessPerception Of Others Author:Terri E Apter
“All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.” SoundEmotionOne ThingChildhoodYour ChildrenRelated Author:Eyvind Kang
“A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.” FeelsSometimesCertainEmotionAliveChildhoodResourcesWho You ArePainfulConstructsJoyous Author:Edward Hirsch