“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.” MaySelfFactsLostFearBitsEmotionalPrideEqualLosingWeaknessEmptyOppositesIndependenceDesertSelfishnessMaskCowardFearfulIntimidatedWithout LoveCowardlyTentsPersonificationBarricadesPolar OppositesAfraid To LoveLove Strength Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth.” GivingWellsLooksMeanSelfCareDecisionSupportEmotionalConceptsOppositesTake CareWell BeingVulnerabilityBeing YourselfDependentDependenceEmotional StrengthEmotional Well BeingDepending On Others Author:Sue Thoele
“With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.” ChoicesEmotionalOppositesUglyPartnersEmotional IntelligenceFreedom Of ChoicePossessiveness Author:Peter Shepherd
“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.” MenFeelsTwoDifferentSelfBodyGamesPartyTeamSelf EsteemYouthEmotionalSourceMassOppositesIndependenceWesternMalesPartnersSurrenderSelf WorthEsteemCorporationsManhoodEmphasisConquestAbsentTrickySense Of SelfTerrainSave A Life Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.” StatesFightingEmotionalOppositesStressResponseFlightRelaxationEmotional Response Author:Herbert Benson
“Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.” LittlesLightInfluenceEmotionalJudgingModelsOppositesCriticsCancerComplainingCirclesCompareCriticizeCynicismCompetingProactiveVictimizationCircle Of Influence Author:Stephen Covey
“The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsDifficultEffortSituationStepsEffectsEmotionalCircumstancesLowsOppositesPressureComplainingFrustrationStatus QuoCompelledOpposingVenting Author:Martha Beck
“I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.” WantGivingFeelsFactsReligiousMy OwnChristianityEmotionalMastersTypeOppositesPhilosophicalConversionGave Up Author:C. S. Lewis
“The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.” ThinkingBelieveEndsFactsFeelingsFilmPurposeI BelieveSpaceEmotionAudienceEmotionalOppositesRemoveAccentuate Author:Asghar Farhadi
“I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.” PeopleProblemLiteratureSexEmotionalOppositesSuspectsHomosexualEmotional Problems Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.” ChildrenStatesNaturalEmotionEmotionalOppositesHotReactionsImpulseCharacteristicsContrastTeensPsychicsUnstableInstabilityFluctuationEmotionally Unstable Author:G. Stanley Hall
“It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.” HeartImportantWisdomEmotionalUniqueOppositesTriumphEmotional IntelligenceIntersections Author:David Caruso