Sentences with phrase «received emotional satisfaction»

In all of these cases, although exercising complete forgiveness was sometimes a process for them, when forgiveness was finally extended, these individuals received emotional satisfaction and an intrinsic desire to progress forward with their lives regardless of whether or not reconciliation would happen.

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But insofar as this psychology talks of man's deep emotional drives, his purposive activity, his striving for realization of selfhood, his need to love and to be able to receive love, and with these the twistings and distortings which may be uncovered in him — insofar as it does this, it helps us see something of what true fulfillment is about and has much to say concerning such actualization of man, with man's consequent «satisfaction» and the joy which it provides, about which in an entirely different idiom the heavenly city was a picture.