Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Emotion Quotes
DetachmentEmotionIdentity 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.
ArtCreativityEmotionExpressionResilience Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
AnxietyEmotionMental HealthVulnerability I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
EmotionInfluenceRelationshipSocial Interactions Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
ArtEmotionThoughtUnderstanding The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
DespairEmotionLoveStrategy It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
EmotionLossOpportunityRemembranceYouth When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
ArtDreamEmotionMusic Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
ControlEmotionInvolvementPerceptionUncertainty It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.
Aesthetic ExperienceBeautyDevelopmentEmotionSensitivity Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Color MetaphorEmotionHuman ExperienceSelf-ExpressionSymbolism I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
AuthenticityDeceptionEmotionSimplicityTruth Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
EmotionHumanityStrengthVulnerabilityWeakness I'm very weak in a sense. I'm very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.
EmotionJoyMelancholyMemoryNostalgia When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.
CompassionEmotionGenerosityGivingReceptivity He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
ArtCommunicationEmotionIgnoranceKnowledge I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
AuthenticityEmotionJoyOpposites Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
CreativityEmotionEmpathyMental HealthSelf-Expression Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
EmotionForgivenessHuman ConditionTransformationUniqueness As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.
ChallengeEmotionParentingUncertainty The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
ClarityEmotionMindPerspectiveVision As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
CreativityEmotionIdentityMusicUrgency My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
