David Lidington Quotes

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Guys want to talk about feelings, too, sometimes.

One of the biggest things growing up that my dad taught me is that if I was okay to talk about my feelings and express how I felt and not get angry, then he would listen to me. If I had issues, I would just tell him, 'Here's how I feel, this is what I'm feeling,' either with him or with my mom.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I'm an emotional guy.

I'm really, really emotional.

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

It's OK to have up days. It's OK to have down days. But especially remember it's OK to talk to people and let them know you're not OK. Don't think it's something you have to keep to yourself to fit in or to be normal. There's no such thing as normal.

We know that fathers find asking for help harder than mothers.

If you have things that make you sad, express them to other people.

I feel like sometimes we just need to speak more about what we're going through.

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.

I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them.

I am a very emotional guy.

A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions.

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.