"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions."

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Source : "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2010.

BrenÃ© Brown

#Positive Quotes #Abnormal Psychology Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.”
“If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.”
“At a really young age you just play ball and you have fun and you don't see basketball as something as a career, it just drives you crazy. But as the years went by and the goals got bigger for myself you realize that without almost being obsessed you won't reach those goals. So the older I get I think the more I realize that it's almost necessary to get to that level.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.”
“We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.”
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”

Source : Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.146, Princeton University Press
“Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me. But as I ran, The Arm, that good left arm, took hold of the situation and spoke soothingly: ease up, Kid, it's loneliness, you're all alone in the world; your father, your mother, your faith, they can't help you, nobody helps anybody, you only help yourself, and that's why I'm here, because we are inseperable, and we'll take care of everything.”
“Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.”

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