The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

Love is the one wild card.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I never fall in love.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Football is a sad game.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

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