Emotional Life Quotes - Page 4

• If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

  Richard Wilhelm

  Emotional, Harmony, Intellect

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• It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend about adolescents. . . . That they do not confide in us is hardly surprising. They use wise discretion in disguising themselves with the caricatures we design for them. And unfortunately for us, as for them, too often adolescents retain the caricatured personalities they had merely meant to try on for size.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Wise, Emotional, Design

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• It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Father, Son, Men

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Emotional, Realms, Humans

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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