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• Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

  Ann Burton

  Stress, Sloth, Metabolism

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Editors, Trying

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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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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• 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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• I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

  Donald Miller

  Writing, Discipline, Different

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• Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

  Raquel Zimmermann

  Important, Music Is, Photo Shoots

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• I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

  Nick Cave

  Weather, I Can

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• It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.

  Andrew W.K.

  Pain, Happy Life, Joy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.

  Ian Hornak

  Ideas, Perfect, Everyday

  The 57th Street Review, January 1976.

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• Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

  Ansel Adams

  Dream, Heart, Past

  Ansel Adams (1981). “Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio”

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• Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Thinking, People, Dresses

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• Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Would Be

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• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, Long

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• I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

  Donald Miller

  Rain, Night, Self

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• I think weather affects my mood a lot more than I thought, and I like to be in bad moods sometimes.

  Ellie Kemper

  Thinking, Weather, Bad Mood

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

  Eric Jensen

  Exercise, Cells, Brain

  Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.3, ASCD

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• Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Powerful, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Thinking, Sight

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mother, Baby, Cells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.98, Vintage

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• Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

  Alfred Austin

  Nature, Law, Purpose

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

  Samuel Beckett

  Taken, Yesterday, Importance

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to pictures and 'moods' of some kind. If they can't imagine a green field, a blue sky or something of the sort, then they are out of their depth.

  Anton Webern

  Blue, Sky, Green Fields

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

  James Elkins

  Inarticulate, Projection, Viewers

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge

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• You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.

  Guido Molinari

  Ideas, Space, Brain

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