It’s obvious that someone is going through emotional pain when you could look at them and see deep pain in their eyes even while they are smiling.

Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right...

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

When on an emotional roller-coaster, take the leap of faith …

Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.

when a child is ridiculed, shamed, hurt or ignored when she experiences and expresses a legitimate dependency need, she will later be inclined to attach those same affective tones to her dependency. Thus, she will...

I was once asked, ‘How do you manage to always be in a positive spirit?’ I replied, ‘It is because I cannot afford to live with the emotional pain that comes with dwelling on negativity.

I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotional reactions, chastising...

Free yourself from any emotional trauma. Dwell on positive thoughts, the strength for your soul.

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!

Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the...

You really need stitches,” she tells me.”Or you’re going to have a scar.” I try not to laugh. Stitches aren’t going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken...

To decide to quit on yourself, is to be willing to settle for the pain that comes with every big regret.

What was he thinking falling in love with her again, opening himself to another world of hurt when she left—knowing she would leave? She was a lawyer, working in the big city, used to fancy...

May you comfort and healing.

Among my stillness was a pounding heart.

Is the love you have for me, and the feelings I have for you forever parallel, with no chance of intersecting?

So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever...

Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife’s death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: “Lord, now lettest...

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

Some people in your lifeTouch you so very deeplyThat you drown totally in that depth.

We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.

I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.

I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.

It is hard to lose the people we love ,but feeling sorry they died is selfish.Dying is going heaven home to God we know your papa is in heaven with our Lady and Jesus.Let us...

I’ll bet I could find some hurtful words in a pile of sticks and stones. Something like an insincere and deceptive “I love you.

…she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk’s bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs,...

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Never give up on love. Love like you have never been hurt.

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or...

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to...

I promised I’d save him, take him home! I promised him!” . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or...

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy’Albert Einstein

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

Never allow unforgiveness to rule your heart. Let go of your hurts. Embrace healing.

Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself,...

My best writing surfaces out of the need to rebel, the desire to end emotional chaos and the importance I place on embracing that independent streak inside us all that makes us want to break...

What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to you—but with what...

She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia,...

Once you cry it out, it’s supposed to vanish…right? It’s not true. It’s just…a little less.It was the first chink in my brickwall. The wall was still there. And it was still made of bricks,but...

Don’t be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Never allow forgiveness to rule your heart. Let go of your hurts. Embrace healing.

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

I lose it when I can’t write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.

You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.

Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s...

Inevitability is a comfortable escape for people who don’t care for the pain that comes with truth. They convince themselves that they had no hand or say in the matter, that whatever happened could not...

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

If you don’t forgive those who have hurt you, you give them power of you. When you forgive you are in control of yourself and emotions.