Emotional Blockage Quotes

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] movie was stalled and in confusion. I felt frustrated creatively, and just couldn't work on the Baby material till the movie was sorted out.

All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.

I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.