Mood Quotes - Page 35

• A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Geisha, Seasons

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• Don't start. My mood stays better if you don't start.

  Mira Grant

  Ifs

  Mira Grant (2011). “Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  World, Depends

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.107, Bantam

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• She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, House, Forever

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• I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Horse, School, Choices

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hurt, Vanity, Rose

  "The Beautiful and Damned".

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• We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Ideas, Needs

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jul 15, 2013

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• If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.

  Primo Levi

  Happy Times, Profound, Sorrow

  Primo Levi (1984). “The periodic table”, Schocken

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• Rodney set a plate in front of me and one in front of my mother. I almost fainted when she began to eat instead of hurling it at him. Had one of the vampires gotten tired of her bitching and bitten her into a better mood? She caught my flabbergasted look. "I watched what he put in it" she said defensively. Rodney, instead of being insulted, just laughed. "You're welcome, Justina.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mother, Tired, Vampire

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Wizards

  "The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 1995.

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• Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

  Obert Skye

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• I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, Astrology, Watches

  "Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy", 1978.

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• You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.' 'I'll kill you both.' 'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.' Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.' 'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.' 'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up.

  Derek Landy

  Love You, Mean, Hurtful

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• We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.

  Tara Brach

  Beautiful, Sweet, Sunset

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.133, Random House

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• Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fire, Mountain, Decay

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Self Esteem, Sleep, Thinking

  Kay Redfield Jamison (1996). “Touched With Fire”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wall, Men, Shadow

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

  Anais Nin

  Zoos, Wall, Eye

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• You can find me in the frozen mood section.

  Henry Rollins

  Frozen, Find Me, Sections

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• We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.

  Alain de Botton

  Self, Ideas, Risk

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.55, Penguin UK

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• Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles. “Thank you, Rachel,” he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened. “Welcome back, my itchy witch.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Feet, Black

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• I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

  John Green

  Bad Mood, Moments, Beats

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.105, Penguin

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• Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

  John Bradshaw

  Powerful, Feelings, Way

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.124, Health Communications, Inc.

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• I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

  Pat Conroy

  Military, World, Good Mood

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.403, Open Road Media

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• Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

  Charles de Lint

  Teenager, Writing, Inspire

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles de Lint". Interview with Charles Tan, www.sfsignal.com. September 09, 2010.

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