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Quotes About Moods

It's like different moods, so whenever you in one mood, I got a song for that. And then you in a down or other type of mood where you really just wanna chill, I got that type of music, too.
~ Gunna
Most behavior is in pursuit of a goal. Some efforts are attempts to get something, others to escape or prevent something. Either way, an individual is usually trying to make progress toward some goal. High and low moods are aroused by situations that arise during goal pursuit. What situations? A generic but useful answer is: high and low moods were shaped to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations .
~ Randolph M. Nesse
How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy--all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
~ RANDOLPH SILLIMAN BOURNE
What rattled and thumped was a knotted towel full of melting ice cubes. Somebody who loved me very much had put them on the back of my head. Somebody who loved me less had bashed in the back of my skull. It could have been the same person. People have moods.
~ Raymond Chandler
In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent.
~ Richard Carlson
The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously.
~ Richard Carlson
In low moods we lose our perspective and everything seems urgent. We completely forget that when we are in a good mood, everything seems so much better.
~ Richard Carlson
We call them feelings because we feel them.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
~ Arthur Golden
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
~ Henry David Thoreau
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
~ Herman Melville
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...
~ Anne Sexton
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.
~ Michael Jackson
They say music can alter moods and talk to you.
~ Eminem
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
~ Bram Stoker
Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
~ Robert H. Schuller
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
~ Aldous Huxley
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
~ John Drinkwater
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.
~ Pietro Aretino
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
~ Stanley Kubrick
For example, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) relies heavily on homework assignments, such as keeping track of your moods, thoughts, or self-statements; challenging your assumptions and replacing them with alternative ways of thinking; or keeping behavior, sleep, and mood charts.
~ David J. Miklowitz
People have good and bad days.
~ Anna Chlumsky