Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Hatred is settled anger.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Acting is happy agony.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.