Quotes About Suppressing Emotions

#1. The long-term pain suffered by suppressing emotions is far greater than the short-term pain of confronting them.

Sam Owen

#2. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. And I won't get to see Hikari or Aimi again? How can that be fair? What have I done to deserve this?"-
"It's not what you've done, Sam. It's who you are. You are destined for greater things because of who you are.

Phillip W. Simpson

#4. For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

Cheryl James

#5. People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

Dick Wolf

#6. The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational.
There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole - they will speak to you in profound ways.

Adele Theron

#7. The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

Bhikkhu Analayo

#8. In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"

Daniel Lopatin