emotional acknowledgment Quotes

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

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

I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

As a man, I have no problem saying I was hurt.

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.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.

Think of fear as a 2-year-old child who doesn't want to go grocery shopping with you. Because you must buy groceries, you'll just have to take the two year old with you. Fear is no different. In other words, acknowledge that fear exists but don't let it keep you from doing important tasks.

I do have feelings.

I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.

That's me, I'm emotional.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.

I have nothing definite to apologize for; I'm just sorry about everything in general.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker.