Quotes — Emotions

• "The good news is that pain, whether physical or emotional, can function as a powerful catalyst for healing, change, and growth."

  — Friedemann Schaub

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!"

  — Robert Burns

  Man Was Made To Mourn

• "Fears may mask anxiety."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "Emotions… are ancient mechanisms that provide moment-by-moment feedback information for individuals in relationship to their motive-environment interactions, and provide the impetus for motivation and action…"

  — Paul Gilbert

  The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy

• "Honest plain words best pierce the ears of grief."

  — William Shakespeare

  Love's Labour's Lost

• "Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship or as autumn follows summer."

  — C. S. Lewis

  A Grief Observed

• "You can’t heal what you can’t feel."

  — John Bradshaw

  Homecoming

• "… emotions make things matter."

  — Paul Gilbert

• "Emotions… are what bring people into therapy, are at the root of the ‘experience of suffering’, and in some approaches are the focus for therapy."

  — Paul Gilbert

  The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy

• "Transmuting emotion is one way way of turning the dark, murky world of the confused mind into the radiance of clear vision."

  — John Welwood

  Awakening The Heart

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