“I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.” IfsFeelsI CanEnoughPoliticalSocialEmotionalCommitmentRootsIndianCanadaExpatriates Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.” MomentsCharacterActionPastEmotionalProtectShadowRootsPatternsWoundsReactionsPresent MomentProtect YouSabotageEmotional Wounds Author:Connie Zweig
“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is "to move.” SelfRememberMovingEmotionEmotionalSkillsRootsFundamentalsPsychologicalImpulseSelf ControlResisting Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.” HeartStoriesTodayAbleChallengesAudienceLaughingCryEmotionalHeroRootsVisualsSeatsToysTwistsDeep Down Author:Gabriel Campisi
“Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.” UsePainChildhoodEmotionalDrugAnxietyRootsResponseAlcoholAggressionSymptomsEmotional PainTraumatic ExperiencesLater In LifeDrug UseAnxiety Depression Author:Jed Diamond
“The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.” WorldWayHumansWarSpiritualFormSufferingCausesWaterAnimalPovertyAirEmotionalDiseaseRootsTreatsCleanStarvationHuman SufferingRoot CauseClean AirAir And Water Author:Sharon Gannon
“I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.” GivingTryingPoliticalFightingFoundUnderstandingEmotionalProjectsRootsHistoricalSpreadLegacyOverwhelmingDay To DayViciousScopeVacuumsDiligentManageableTentacles Author:Ava DuVernay