Marie Lu Quotes

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

Part of growing up is learning to live with your emotions; today’s shortcut is to believe whatever your feelings are, they’re justified.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

I react emotionally to everything!

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

I have some anger issues.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

I think that as my kids grow up and hit milestones that spark emotion for myself in my own history, it will always trigger personal feelings from those times - whether good or bad - and I definitely want to develop the tools I need to keep the immediacy of those negative emotions in the past.

I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.