Quotes About Emotional Growth

#1. It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

Alice Miller

#2. Hey, you were into him for over two years. I'm allowed to feel a little vulnerable and insecure about the fuckface. Stop trying to stunt my emotional growth, Anne.

Kylie Scott

#3. In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Alana Stewart

#4. In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

Lewis Black

#5. Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Judith Orloff

#6. How are we tending to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual sides to the 'vehicle' of our life...our body.

This garden needs constant care and constant growth to stay alive and healthy in all possible senses

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#7. Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

Charles Garfield

#8. Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Rand Olson

#9. Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

Deborah Sandella

#10. However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#11. We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If we are always being strong and without needs, we are not growing, and we are setting ourselves up for a very dangerous fall.

Henry Cloud

#12. If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain - in time you will move through your pain.

Bryant McGill

#13. If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living.

Kate McGahan

#14. We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

Alaric Hutchinson

#15. It's important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of your mental and emotional health, it's important to be honest about and honor your need for meaningful connections.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#16. Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person's life.

Lisa Firestone

#17. Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Dirk Benedict

#18. He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.

C.J. English

#19. Create an environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. Surround yourself with caring and positive people who support you, and reflect who you want to be.

Steve Maraboli

#20. We are beings emanating energy of multiple colors and sounds of Light.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#21. Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells are the physical Light of our body.
Colors can be used to heal, restore and to uplift us.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#22. The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#23. The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

Joyce Meyer

#24. You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable.

Kemi Sogunle

#25. You must make time daily for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.

Archibald Marwizi

#27. We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind,

Maria Montessori

#28. You are the biggest threat to your emotional and physical health if you don't set aside time for relaxation, joy, and personal growth.

Maddy Malhotra

#29. Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.

Gary Chapman

#30. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#31. If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.

Stanley Greenspan

#32. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.

M. Scott Peck

#33. Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth.

Balroop Singh

#34. Peace is something that comes from within. It is
created by your willingness to accept yourself.

Jason Nelson