Quotes about Emotional

A psychologist flashed hundreds of words on a screen and used an electric gadget to measure emotional reactions. High marks went to darling. So I used it in a headline for Dove.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty.

I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love. It's cause and effect. That's the story of my childhood. If I can be good enough, maybe my mother will love me.

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don't even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, "What are you trying to teach me?" Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real." From Everything Belongs, p. 143

The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.