{"quotes":[{"text":"The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong -- who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?","author":"Larry Watson","tags":["quiet-men","repressed-emotions","silence","taciturn-men","undemonstrative-men"],"id":2842,"author_id":"Larry+Watson"},{"text":"There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn't it time to break free?","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["emotions","empathy","feelings","repressed-emotions","repression","self-expression","self-love","self-repression","self-respect","vulnerability"],"id":108786,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["emotional-health","health","hysteria","inspirational","life-lessons","life-lessons","medicine","medicine-for-the-soul","neuropsychology","neuroscience","physiology","psychiatry","psychology","psychology","repressed-emotions","repressed-feelings","repression","therapy"],"id":207986,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.","author":"Allan Dare Pearce","tags":["desires","repressed-emotions","therapy"],"id":435541,"author_id":"Allan+Dare+Pearce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}