Books Quote by Amir Levine Download Open image ““Avoidants are not exactly open books and tend to repress rather than express their emotions.”” — Amir Levine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“The key to coping with questionable emotions is knowing that we are in control of them, and not the other way around.” — Jeanne Segal Copy Share Image
“Denying or repressing strong emotions doesn't eliminate them. Instead, they get displaced or stored up.” — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.” — Julian Short Copy Share Image
“I don't care when people think I'm an antisocial, controlling bookworm because that's what I am. It's when they interpret me wrong that I… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“Like a book that’s never read, the emotions are lost unless given weight and breath and voice.” — Emma Scott Copy Share Image
“He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.” — Geoffrey Household Copy Share Image
“You will usually find two kind of people around Some Sympathetic and Some Antipathetic and I'm not concerned with the former” — Waqas Bin Ehsan Copy Share Image
“It's important to remember that even with effective communication, some problems won't be solved immediately. What's vital is your partner's response--whether he or she… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“Other studies have found that faced with a stressful life event ... avoidants' defenses are quick to break down and they then appear and… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“...being happy and fulfilled is probably one of the most attractive traits you can offer a partner.” — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“It is very important that you be compassionate with yourself. The worse you feel about yourself, the more you'll want to go back to… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“people with a secure attachment style are more likely than others to forgive their partner for wrongdoing. ...secure people just naturally dwell less on… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“There are many charming, intelligent people out there who can make you happy, but there are also many who are not right for you.… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“Whether plain or gorgeous, we've learned to appreciate [secure-type people] for what they really are -- the "supermates" of evolution -- and we hope… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“our culture encourages you [with an anxious attachment style] to believe that many of your needs are illegitimate. But whether they are legitimate or… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“Oxytocin, a hormone and neuropeptide ... plays a major role in attachment processes and serves several purposes: It causes women to go into labor,… — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“Feeling close and complete with someone else -- the emotional equivalent of finding a home” — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
“if you're with someone secure, they nurture you into a more secure stance.” — Amir Levine Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image