Emotional Autonomy Quotes

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

I think men and women will both agree that one of the perks of being single on Valentine's Day is that you get to keep your money in your pocket.

It's very hard to sustain love, that's for sure. But the more you have your own life and your own self, and the less you give away who you are, the more men are attracted to you. The more desperate you are for a relationship, the worse it is to find a healthy relationship. Because the minute you become one-and-a-half people instead of two, it's a mess. Nobody's happy. Keeping your identity and having your own life and your own self, that's the only way I can make my life and sustain life.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.