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

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Acting is happy agony.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

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

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

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.