Emotional Turmoil Quotes

• Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Emotional, Sick, Minutes

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• You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Emotional, Consciousness, Turmoil

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• I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Emotional, Made

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• I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

  P. D. James

  Sex, Taken, Emotional

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.158, Vintage

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• I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

  Paul Simon

  Emotional, Pressure, Fans

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• Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

  David Byrne

  Divorce, Emotional, Turmoil

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• Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

  Debbie Ford

  Powerful, Emotional, Journey

  Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

  Widad Akrawi

  Disappointment, Regret, Sadness

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• Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

  Lykke Li

  Emotional, Turmoil, Not Sure

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• Never say never - and I certainly don't judge anyone who does it. But most of the characters I play are going through some kind of emotional turmoil, so my job requires me to have expression. If my face was froze, what right do I have to play that part? All the women who haven't done anything to their faces are still able to play great roles. And some of the ones who have done something have messed it up - they look freakish. Anyway, for me it's about playing women with rich lives - and the longer the life, the deeper the wrinkles.

  Naomi Watts

  Jobs, Character, Emotional

  "Naomi's Next Act". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.

  Isaac Hayes

  Emotional, Tunes, Albums

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• There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Rain, Emotional, Fire

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Frustration, Emotional

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Pain, Emotional, Knowing

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Prayer, Couple

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• I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Song, Emotional, Rocks

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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