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“The moment we find the reason behind an emotion the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.”

Reason Moments Asks Memories Answers Pay Emotion Behinds Wall Return Painful Questioning

Author:Gloria Steinem

“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.”

People Years Reason Emotion Education Argument Painful Motive Repeats Slogans Assertion

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.”

Inspirational Energy Growth Emotion Creative Assuming Personal Growth Painful Authenticity Uncomfortable Resisting Ascent Creative Energy

Book:Simple Abundance

Source: Simple Abundance

“They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.”

World Long Age Emotion Tears Bed Lows Painful Old Age Burned

Book:A Lantern in Her Hand

Source: A Lantern in Her Hand

“It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.”

Feels May Feelings Suffering Emotion Endure Painful Proof Sufficient Contentment Attributes Armor Resignation Disagreeable Morbid

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.”

“Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,who has moments of intense anger and of negative feelings which are not integrated into that large body of responses, impressions and emotions we call 'our feelings for someone,' but instead they are coming from someone who is seen to know what she does.”

Knows Children Doe Moments Feelings Body Emotion Daughter Negative Response Painful Impression Intense Insult Integrated Lashes Negative Feelings

Author:Terri E Apter

“We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.”

Feels Matter Past Emotion Events Painful Heal Past Events

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“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.”

Feels Sometimes Certain Emotion Alive Childhood Resources Who You Are Painful Constructs Joyous

Author:Edward Hirsch