Quotes about Emotional

Break any ties—good or bad, emotional or spiritual—with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Patience is important not only in waiting for the right time to start a relationship, but also in allowing it to unfold at a healthy pace. Impatience rushes everything. It urges us to skip the time and attention a healthy friendship requires and to jump straight into emotional and physical intimacy.

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "I feel sorry for the man who can't feel the whip when it is laid on the other man's back.

The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and "personal fulfillment." America's compulsion for "maximum personhood" is evidenced everywhere.

Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

Every performer I talk to will, with different words, talk about the sanctity of a good standup show, how it can really feel spiritual. When everybody is laughing, fixed on the same thing, you feel like you transcend yourself.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.