Emotional Baggage Quotes

• Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

  Steven Pinker

  Emotional, Political, Mind

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• They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, Grief, Emotional

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Emotional, Spirituality

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• Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

  Tim Fargo

  Forgiveness, Emotional, Baggage

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• A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

  John Hancock

  Attitude, Liberty, Pieces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Responsibility, Choices

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.73, Random House

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• It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

  Joanna Macy

  Fall, Emotional, Shells

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• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  Olivia Wilde

  Block, Emotional, Feet

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• Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  "Helping Those With Chronic Illness Manage Their Care One Step At A Time" by Shanice J. Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2017.

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• For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it all right. We are ultimately a product of our biology and environment. Consequently, I choose to be compassionate with others when I consider how much painful emotional baggage we are biologically programmed to carry around. I recognize that mistakes will be made, but this does not mean that I need to either victimize myself or take your actions and mistakes personally. Your stuff is your stuff, and my stuff is my stuff.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Mistake, Mean, Emotional

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.156, Penguin

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• ...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Life, God, Running

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• I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!

  Ed Robertson

  Sex, Fun, Eye

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• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Love, Moving On, Break Up

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

  John Seagall

  Creativity, Fighting, Emotional

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• Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Men, Embarrassed

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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