Repressing Feelings Quotes & Sayings

There were actual people in the world whose idea of heaven would be a chocolate cat. — Terry Pratchett

If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call. — David Lee Roth

Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually. — Frederick Lenz

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights. — Channing Tatum

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas — John F. Kennedy

I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up. — David Gordon Green

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel. — Pema Chodron

When the axe entered the forest, the trees said to each other: do not worry, the handle in that axe is one of us. — Amish Tripathi

They [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right; so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. — Abraham Lincoln

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of this world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel. — Jim Butcher

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things. — Miranda Otto

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms. — Winona LaDuke

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others. — Stephen Covey

And then come and join us in a toast. I'm about to whisk Lauren off to Las Vegas to get married. The plane is being refueled and checked out right now."
"Does Lauren know about this?" Mary said, frowning. "She's downstairs in Jim's office, hard at work."
"I'll convince her of the wisdom of the plan."
"When the plane is airborne and she has no choice," Ericka put in with a knowing smile.
"Exactly." Nick grinned in high good spirits. He had missed her so much that he'd called her three times a day, every day, like a lovesick schoolboy. — Judith McNaught

She was good at that, repressing her feelings, disguising them as something else. Sometimes she thought it was the only thing she was good at. — Nicole Ciacchella