
They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.
– David W Earle
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- You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul – you are disappointed. – edith sodergran
- If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain. – David W Earle
- When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
- If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change. – David W Earle
- Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it’s… it’s manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts. – Theo Raeken
- Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
- If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
- What if you’re the angel I sought and me the ghost you loved, and we both knew, we belong to different place. – J Limbu
- Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family. – David W Earle
- When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned. – David W Earle
- A spiritual hell I lived in -¦ hating the God of love and knowing the god I served -¦ hated me! – David W Earle
- I have a love/pain relationship with her. Love that caused more pain and pain that changed me. – Sara Naveed
- I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
- We swam deep in the waves, a wild chase ..Stained with memories and pain.Who knew a gulf would lay between?Who knew loving someone, would ache? – honeste
- (I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story), – David Halberstam
- Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come. – Richard Wright
- There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson – Taylor Swift
- The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you. – David W Earle
- It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them. – David W Earle
- Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved. – David W Earle
- Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen. – David W Earle
- Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy – David W Earle
- Being real is being true to you. – David W Earle
- We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, -œThis is who I am-¦and I am okay.- This is simple-¦not easy. – David W Earle
- When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins. – David W Earle
- Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits. – David W Earle
- The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others. – David W Earle
- When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent. – David W Earle
- If no one has boundaries-¦how can there be any transgression? – David W Earle
- Life is a learning experience and this is a very peaceful method of accepting the reality you face-¦-What will I learn? – David W Earle
- People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions. – David W Earle
- The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves. – David W Earle
- Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built. – David W Earle
- When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt. – David W Earle
- We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of -œjust kidding. – David W Earle
- People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions. – David W Earle
- If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door. – David W Earle
- For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power. – David W Earle
- I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization – simple but explosive. – David W Earle
- Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families. – David W Earle
