Quotes About Mood

Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungry—he was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable mood—or for some darker reason.

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

The object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me when this inclination passes. (Catherine, in a letter to Grigory Potemkin).

When you interact with this person, how does it typically affect your energy level?

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

I already said loud and clear that today I'm apparently a little hmm hmm and la-di-da and okay a bit hoo-hoo and maybe also a little wee-oo wee-oo. Is that so terrible?

William James said, 'We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.

When you feel down or weary, play some music.

The sun rejuvenates me. When I grow tired, it keeps my mood bright.

We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.

Om aan de ontwerkelijking te ontsnappen - om de komst ervan uit te stellen - probeer ik me met de wereld te verenigen door middel van het slechte humeur.

have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.

You're a bad-tempered type of guy, Finlay,' I said, 'Bad temper never made a anybody a criminal.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.