Mood Quotes - Page 11

• Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Commitment, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, Sincerity, Insincere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.137, University of Missouri Press

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• If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sincerity, Prophet, Certificates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Believe, Men

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• I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Prayer, Expression, Psalms

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• Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Frustration, Giving

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• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  P. D. James

  Prejudice, Letters, May

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.85, Vintage

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• There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Jars, Mirth

  "Kenelm Chillingly; His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1873.

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• I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Envy, Cages

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 27

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• If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Honesty, Disappointment, People

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• It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 3, 1842.

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• The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Anchors, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.

  Crystal Eastman

  Marriage, Children, Husband

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Drinking, Artist

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• Our moods do not believe in each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Vacuity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Smile, Motherhood, Tears

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Life, Thinking, Want

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• What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

  William Butler Yeats

  Expression, Literature, Incidents

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

  Olga Kurylenko

  Waiting, Television, Walks

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks MAGIC CITY and Working for Terrence Malick on His Next Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

  Neil Farber

  Thinking, Good Lyric, Artwork

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one feeling at a time. Classical music is by its very nature involved with different kinds of music, constantly transforming one another, which is more akin to the way our experience of life really is.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Play, Feelings, Wish

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  Avey Tare

  Creating, Listening, Environmental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to look at my personal style as an extension of my mood that day.

  Stella Hudgens

  Style, Looks, Extensions

  "Meet Vanessa Hudgens' Stylish Little Sister (and Ballet Dancer!) Stella". Interview With Leah Melby Clinton, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2015.

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• Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Bad Mood, Realizing, Discouraged

  Lynn Grabhorn (2011). “The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook”, p.4, Hampton Roads Publishing

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