Emotional Baggage Quotes

“She called it baggage. "You're scared to open your suitcases and see what your mother packed.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“In our unpacking process, we must own it before we can disown it!" EL”
― Evinda Lepins, Back to Single

“My therapist has helped me learn to understand that if you don't unpack your own emotional baggage it's no longer baggage--it's deadweight.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times

“Those who do not know emotional baggage also do not know about the tribulations of the world.
But those who do not learn to cope with its burdens also forget about its beauty.”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.”
― Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your SoulMate with EFT: Relationship as a Spiritual Path

“Take out the garbage...true happiness comes from within not from without!”
― Ken Poirot

“Don't let your past pollute your present and disable you from progressing in the future.”
― Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

“Live light. Offload internal and external baggage for peace within and peace without.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“When someone is judging you, it's unlikely that their judgment is actually about you. As I see it, we're all carrying around a bunch of suitcases. We have our insecurities suitcase. We have our stress suitcase. We have our guilt and our worries suitcases. Some suitcases we might have been carrying since our childhood, stories we were told about who we are that aren't even true. They're fiction that we were handed, picked up, believed, and still carry. Sometimes a person comes along with one of their suitcases, with their issues all packed up and ready to go, and they try to hand it to us. Do not pick up that suitcase! Do not pick it up! Because if you pick up their suitcase, you will be up all night, worrying if what they said about you is true, stressing yourself out, questioning yourself, getting bitter, and feeding your insecurities. Over a suitcase that never belonged to you in the first place.

So if people keep trying to hand off their suitcases to you like you're a bellhop, you might need to break up with them the same way you would break off an unhealthy relationship with an emotionally abusive boyfriend. And as you go through life, trying to figure out how to ferry around those suitcases that do belong to you (and we all have our own stuff . . . the stuffiest of stuffs!), don't try to hand those off to someone else as a way to try to get rid of your pain. Instead, sit down with a friend or a great therapist and have a big, nonjudgmental "let's unpack these suitcases together" session.”
― Kristina Kuzmic, Hold On, But Don't Hold Still

“If we think of our life as a journey [...] we don't want to move into our future lugging along the heavy baggage of our past. One way to lighten the load is to work on forgiveness and acceptance.”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“There is not a one-size-fits-all approach to living life, resolving the emotional baggage you carry or accepting the truth of being an eternal soul.”
― Lorraine Nilon, Your Insight and Awareness Book: Your life is an expedition to discover the truth of yourself

“Who decided to call it "Emotional Baggage" and not "Griefcase"?”
― Nitya Prakash

“The past gets carried with us. It's always there.”
― Ann Pearlman, The Christmas Cookie Club

“Can I carry Something? Caroline offered.
Just your emotional baggage, Virginia said, picking up an appetizer tray.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Oysterville Sewing Circle

“Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever done but keep us alive only to make us feel like shit?”
― Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties