17 Quotes Tagged: mood

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

Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.

Enjoying the taste of toasted raisin bread or the humor in a cartoon may not seem like much, but simple pleasures like these ease emotional upsets, lift your mood, and enrich your life. They also provide health benefits, by releasing endorphins and natural opioids that shift you out of stressful, draining reactive states and into happier responsive ones. As a bonus, some pleasures — such as dancing, sex, your team winning a game of pick-up basketball, or laughing with friends — come with energizing feelings of vitality or passion that enhance long-term health. Opportunities for pleasure are all around you, especially if you include things like the rainbow glitter of the tiny grains of sand in a sidewalk, the sound of water falling into a tub, the sense of connection in talking with a friend, or the reassurance that comes from the stove working when you need to make dinner.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

Just programmed my Alexa to order a pizza if I shout incoherently for more than 10 seconds

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

"Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self — to the mediating intellect — as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues" which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form."

If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

That was the trouble with the Outside. One teetered forever between unpleasant alternatives.