Mary Watkins quotes

“A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.”
-- Mary Watkins

#Being Strong Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Support Quotes

“In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”

“I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.”

“In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.”

Source : Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.45, Weinstein Publishing

“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”

“As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.”

Source : Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

“I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.”

Source : Source: www.smh.com.au

“I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.”

“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”

“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”

“The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.”