Emotional Recharge Quotes

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

After a full morning working on 'TBC,' I don't feel like talking to any guys for a few hours.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can't be 24x7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

The invisible bond that gives the baby rein to discover his place in the world also brings the creeping baby back to home base....In this way he recharges himself. He refuels on the loving energies that flow to him from his mother. Then he's off for another foray of adventure and exploration.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

I'm a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective - I feel things first, and then I think them through - and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel's nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.

The audience fills me back up, definitely.

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.

Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you've cleared your head out of all the negativity.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.