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“Sometimes I am so desperate for quiet that I think I might commit murder for a moment of silence. Instead, I shut down incrementally as I'm able.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“I need to get away from civilization before I punch someone in the throat.”
― S.J. Tilly, Sleet Kitten

“My life achievement amounts to nothing at all, a mood, a single color”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard

“With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an academic, or an assistant in the better sort of a bookshop. But there's something about her—a stillness, a fixity of gaze—that tells another story.”
― Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle

“Temperament is closely related to mood but best refers to the sum total of biological constraints on personality.”
― Theodore Millon, Personality Disorders in Modern Life

“What happens when that recently triggered mood lingers? You’ve been in a bit of a funk since that day, and now you look around the room during a staff meeting and all you think of is that this person’s tie is hideous, and the nasally tone of your boss is worse than nails on a chalkboard.

At this point, you’re not just in a mood. You’re reflecting a temperament, a tendency toward the habitual expression of an emotion through certain
behaviors. A temperament is an emotional reaction with a refractory period that lasts from weeks to months.

Eventually, if you keep the refractory period of an emotion going for months and years, that tendency turns into a personality trait. At that point others will describe you as “bitter� or “resentful� or “angry� or “judgmental.�

Our personality traits, then, are frequently based in our past emotions. Most of the time, personality (how we think, act, and feel) is anchored in the past. So to change our personalities, we have to change the emotions that we memorize. We have to move out of the past.”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself / Life Leverage / How to be F*cking Awesome / Mindset with Muscle

“You're in a prickly mood,' he tells me.

As though I am not all-over briars at all times.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“My mood swings like 365 times a day ”
― Omotoso Omotayo Olawande

“Despite the tendency toward laziness that Turcotte sensed in him, Secretariat thrived on work, and he devoured his hay and oats and sweet feed and mash after even strenuous workouts, never backing off his feed cup, never missing an oat.”
― William Nack, Secretariat: The Making of a Champion

“Mood isn't a particular thought or a particular part of the brain, nor in a particular part of the body, such as a foot or an ear, it is everywhere, but nothing in itself, more like a colour in which thoughts are thought, a colour through which the world is seen.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, Min kamp 5

“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.”
― Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

“In contrast to dopamine-fueled feelings of pleasure, feelings of happiness are caused by another neurotransmitter—serotonin. Serotonin also helps create feelings of contentedness, significance, and importance. Among other functions, serotonin is a mood stabilizer. Sure, dopamine will give you the quick pleasure rush, but serotonin will keep you happy in the long term—a positive upbeat mood that chases the blues away.”
― Simon Marshall, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

“At the grocery store, a clerk told her she'd taken one organic avocado and one regular. "You can't get the two-for-one deal," he informed her. He acted like she had inconvenienced him, like she'd done it on purpose, like she was someone who would scheme to steal avocados. She didn't apologize. "I pulled them from the same bin," she said. "If your produce was organized, this wouldn't have happened." He got flustered and gave her the deal. She didn't say thank you.”
― Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

“There’s nothing terribly original about the fact that I put music on in the morning, just that it sets the tone for the rest of the day. It’s very simple but also sort of complicated to explain: I believe that we can choose our moods: because we are aware that there are several mood-strata and we have the means to gain access to them.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Sentivo che non ero, non ero mai stato e non sarei mai stato una parte vivente di questo mondo straordinariamente solido e profondamente significativo che mi circonda.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“I woke up this morning, how can it not be a good day?”
― Ronni Griffith

“The darkness felt heavy. As if I could touch its texture. Although it was cold, I don't remember this affecting me like the spreading shades of black. It seemed to pursue and watch from its secret shade of silent velvet.”
― Hadinet Tekie

“The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is--not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. The best Nature does for us is to work in us such moods in which thoughts of high import arise. Does any aspect of Nature wake but one thought? Does she ever suggest only one definite thing? Does she make any two men in the same place at the same moment think the same thing? Is she therefore a failure, because she is not definite? Is it nothing that she rouses the something deeper than the understanding--the power that underlies thoughts? Does she not set feeling, and so thinking at work? Would it be better that she did this after one fashion and not after many fashions? Nature is mood-engendering, thought-provoking: such ought the sonata, such ought the fairytale to be.

"But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!"

Not what he pleases, but what he can. If he be not a true man, he will draw evil out of the best; we need not mind how he treats any work of art! If he be a true man, he will imagine true things; what matter whether I meant them or not? They are there none the less that I cannot claim putting them there! One difference between God's work and man's is, that, while God's work cannot mean more than he meant, man's must mean more than he meant. For in everything that God has made, there is a layer upon layer of ascending significance; also he expresses the same thought in higher and higher kinds of that thought: it is God's things, his embodied thoughts, which alone a man has to use, modified and adapted to his own purposes, for the expression of his thoughts; therefore he cannot help his words and figures falling into such combinations in the mind of another as he had himself not foreseen, so many are the thoughts allied to every other thought, so many are the relations involved in every figure, so many the facts hinted in every symbol. A man may well himself discover truth in what he wrote; for he was dealing all the time things that came from thoughts beyond his own.”
― George MacDonald, The Fantastic Imagination of George MacDonald

“Querry and Doctor Colin sat on the steps of the hospital in the cool of the early day. Every pillar had its shadow and every shadow its crouching patient.”
― Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

“Learning brings a lighter mood and restores your energy. The simple shift from blaming to learning is tremendously empowering.”
― Jeffrey Rossman, The Mind-Body Mood Solution: The Breakthrough Drug-Free Program for Lasting Relief from Depression

“Studies have shown that a team leader who is in a positive mood can increase a group’s enthusiasm, help it to channel anger more constructively, and even coax it to perform better on specific tasks.”
― Sam Walker, The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

“A mood is a state of enhanced readiness to experience a certain emotion. Where an emotion is a single note, clearly struck, hanging for a moment in the still air, a mood is the extended, nearly inaudible echo that follows.”
― Thomas Lewis, Richard Lannon e Fari Amini

“The mood is a constant and a variable. It's constant, if you want it to, variable if you let it be.”
― Jeremy Slegg

“He glanced around, as if taking in the surroundings for the first time. "Is this your childhood room?" he asked. "There's a lot of black."
"Well, I didn't paint it that way until I was fourteen and capable of making cryptic comments about how I wanted my room to match my soul. When this was truly my childhood bedroom, it was perfectly normal, thank you very much. I had a wallpaper border with roses on it and an American Girl doll on the dresser and everything."
"Let me guess." He narrowed his eyes at me. "Samantha."
"Not all brunette girls needed to own a Samantha doll," I said, affronted. "But yes, it was Samantha. She had a really cool tartan cape and a valise and she stood up against child labor, so don't think she was just some prissy rich girl.”
― Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“En conclusión, odio ligar con toda mi alma, pero... hay ocasiones en las que merece la pena intentarlo.”
― Joana Marcús, La última nota

“It’s funny how a person’s mood can consume everything around them, even poison your own state of mind, as though the darkness is somehow contagious; you don’t need to be in the same room â€� sometimes not even the same house â€� when you know the very worst of someone has surfaced, you get sucked into the gloom. A black hole.”
― N.A. Cooper, Ripple Effect

“J’aime pas l'hiver qui se balade sous les vêtements et qui te crevasse les mains, j'aime pas le printemps qui te baratine en te promettant monts et merveilles, j'aime pas l'été qui déverse des nuées de bestioles et qui brûle les promesses, et j'aime pas non plus l'automne qui repeint le décor avec des belles couleurs pour le supprimer après. J'aime pas les saisons d'ici. Y a jamais rien qui change durablement, rien à espérer que de dérouler une corde que d'autres ont enroulée pour nous, rien qui vaille la peine de se battre. On gagne jamais, on attend que ça se passe."
P214”
― Frank Bouysse, Plateau

“I am Just a ghost empty with space.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“A coorie home is one that both looks and feels good.
A squishy couch and a favourite mug filled with a steaming cup of tea can brighten the edges of even the most miserable day.
There must be a psychological reason behind why we get attached to certain items in our homes, whether it's dad's armchair with its alarmingly permanent bum groove or a wooden spoon with just the right shaped handle.
Answers on a postcard, please.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“When people keep asking if you’re ok, then you may not be.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind