Lecrae Quotes

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them.

I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

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

He knew that Dr. Argon would advise him against bottling up his emotions as it would lead to psychological scarring in the long term.

It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

You can't heal what you can't feel!

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for.

I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.