Richard Rohr Quotes

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I can access emotions very easily.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

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

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

I have no human feelings.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

A kid should be told that you can have feelings.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

The way I look at it, I'm more of a man because I'm in touch with my emotions. I think people that deny their emotions are pretty weak individuals, if you want my honest opinion.

I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways.