Quotes About Emotional Baggage

#1. Emotional baggage doesn't fit in the overhead compartment. You have to pay extra to check it.

Juliet Blackwell

#2. Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#3. You realize it's not wooden stakes that kill vampires. It's all the emotional baggage and letdowns they have to carry around for century after century.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. You could never 'toss' your emotional baggage. You could only store it in an overhead compartment that might burst open at any given moment.

S.A. Lusher

#5. I don't know if it's the terrible pain from my shouler or the weight of his emotional baggage, but I feel like I'm losing all sense of reality.

Cynthia Hand

#6. I want a real relationship, one without intimacy issues; without trust issues, but with all my emotional baggage, I don't know if that's possible.

Ella Dominguez

#7. This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule, all barely secured with twine.

Amy Cohen

#8. I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little ... it'll grow back!

Ed Robertson

#9. They may have all had suitcases three times as big as mine, but I realized that the emotional baggage I'd brought with me was big enough to put theirs to shame. It was a little lighter, though, now that I was leaving.

Jenny Lawson

#10. Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

Martha Beck

#11. May you never feel the weight of your emotional baggage.

Benito Di Fonzo

#12. Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Steven Pinker

#13. Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. One had to look out for them and take care of them.

Ian Fleming

#14. We use our minds in a way similar to how we use a scale - it tells us its worth, its value. But what if the scale has not been accurately recalibrated to zero? What if you had forgotten to remove mental and emotional baggage?

Ilchi Lee

#15. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Tim Fargo

#16. I had control issues, enough emotional baggage to excite a team of psychiatrists, and - thanks to my demon half - a penchant for snap decisions driven by instinct. And that was when my demon was subdued. When she came to the party, I was as stable as a nuclear reactor on meltdown.

Pippa DaCosta

#17. Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

Gareth Gates

#18. Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.

David Carson

#19. Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

Edmund White

#20. A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

Olivia Wilde

#21. Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#23. I use Facebook to broadcast my intellectual luggage".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#24. Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.

Mark Twain

#25. Charities should not become the junior partner in the welfare state; whether or not they provide services funded by Government or, indeed, receive grants from Government, they must remain independent and focused on their mission.

William Shawcross

#26. Everyone comes with baggage, make sure you get one that comes with a rack

Josh Stern

#27. She called it baggage. You're scared to open your suitcases and see what your mother packed.

A.S. King

#28. In our unpacking process, we must own it before we can disown it! EL

Evinda Lepins

#29. Don't let your past pollute your present and disable you from progressing in the future.

Maddy Malhotra

#30. Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

Liz Goldwyn

#31. Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.

Annette Vaillancourt

#32. Create your inner peace to enjoy the endless beauties of life.

Debasish Mridha

#33. When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesting. I'll probably watch that at some point, but I'm not interested at all to be in it.'

Joel Kinnaman

#34. My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.

Katherine Heigl

#35. Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.

Maddy Malhotra

#36. One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.

Avery Brooks

#37. Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.

Mark McKinnon

#38. Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

John C. Maxwell

#39. You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It's ok to cry..!! You can overcome

Eiichiro Oda

#40. There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required for the storytelling. For me, it's not something I've aspired to say, "I'm going to be working in Hollywood."

Ciaran Hinds

#41. Socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, as the socialists would like you to believe, but a consolidate-and-control-the-wealth program for the Insiders.

Gary Allen

#42. You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

Michael Manley

#43. From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Amartya Sen