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“JANUARY,
The first month of the year,
A perfect time to start all over again,
Changing energies and deserting old moods,
New beginnings, new attitudes”
― Charmaine J Forde

“If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson

“I take life one day at a time. Today I choose to live.”
― Larry Godwin

“Men have mood swings. Women have mood leaps, mood swirls, mood loop-de-loops.”
― Bill Pronzini, Spook

“If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us. Nobody can control that. Nobody can control the environment, the economy, luck, or the moods of others. Compositions change. Positions change. Dispositions change. Experiences change. Opportunities and attitudes change. You will change.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The transience of human feeling is nothing short of ludicrous. My mercurial fluctuations in the course of a single evening made me feel as if I had a character made pf chewing gum. I had fallen into the ugly depths of self-pity, a terrain just above the even more hideous lowlands of despair. Then, easily distracted twit that I am, I had, soon after, found myself on maternal heights, where I had practically swooned with pleasure as I bobbed and fondled the borrowed homunculus next door. I had eaten well, drunk too much wine, and embraced a young woman I hardly knew. In short, I had thoroughly enjoyed myself and had every intention of doing so again. [p. 59]”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

“...the ocean, the perpetual shapeshifter: one day a disc of hammered gold, the next wild and rearing, like a thousand white horses. I noticed how the ocean had moods, just like a person.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

“We are governed by our moods; should be the other way around.”
― Haresh Sippy

“Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing, that after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“I noticed chartreuse lichen scabbing the rocks, the lick and suck of tide against sea-smoothed stones, how every single one of the shells in the bay was different; white limpet shells and ear-shaped mussel shells; kelp fronds, the ones like bronze ribbons, and cream ones like bandages, their stems like bone joints; and, of course, the ocean, that perpetual shapeshifter: one day a disc of hammered gold, the next wild and rearing, like a thousand white horses. I noticed how the ocean had moods, just like a person.”
― C J Cooke

“It is a myth that women are the more complicated sex. Men too, have their moods and whims. They too, respond to every gauntlet that is thrown at them, either overtly or covertly.”
― Sandhya Jane, Second Spring

“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight if a frump.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I don't know how you see gold...or pink...or any hue. Only you know. The colors you perceive are entirely you, and each time you look, they're different. Depends on your moodprint which affects the glow you give to a color.”
― Ellen Palestrant, The World of Glimpse

“Men’s minds are sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad; moods don’t always stay the same! To make an issue of it amounts to harassment.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora

“We fluctuate between joy and sorrow. That's okay. That's the thing about being human”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“I discovered that drama can transport you to another world, another mood.”
― Rebecca Eaton, Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS

“My moods are the equivalent of Madonna’s dancing: inappropriate but all-out”
― Emma Forrest

“Messages we get about menopause more often tell us we must keep ourselves from much of what we want and need in this time. It's easy to get the idea that life in and after menopause is going to be little, dreary rituals of desperate maintenance and exacting control over food, exercise, the shape and size of our bodies, our skin, our intimate relationships, our sexuality, our leisure, our moods, robbing us of what pleasure we might have found in these things before.”
― Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You

“Some days I feel good, some days bad. Sometimes I'm full of hope, the rest of the time not. One moment I feel everything is possible, the next moment not. I know a thousand feelings that are connected to emptiness.”
― Audur Ava Olafsdottir

“I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ...”
― Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

“Your reactions, responses, attitudes, moods, and everything about you will impact each and every situation that you encounter.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“Ideally, it's never wise to turn away from facing anything that needs addressing, this includes your own inner feelings, moods, or negative behaviour.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“Seasons are but just environmental moods.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Our moods fluctuate and we identify ourselves with these feelings. When we're sad, we say, "I'm sad." When we're happy, we say, "I'm happy." But our true person is not those things, nor is it something outside of them.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Battles: Modern Commentary on the Teachings of Master Linji

“We need broader mood literacy and an awareness of tools that interrupt low mood states before they morph into longer and more severe ones. These tools include altering how we think, the events around us, our relationships, and conditions in our bodies (by exercise, medication, or diet).”
― Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

“Your moods change like the weather, but your consciousness remains constant like the sky”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“Mood flexibly tunes behavior to situational requirements, which is what makes it so effective as an adaptation. When a situation is favorable, high moods lead to more efficient pursuit of rewards. Reward-seeking behavior is invigorated (eat grass while the sun shines). In an unfavorable situation, low moods focus attention on threats and obstacles, and behavior is pulled back (hunker down until the blizzard ends). Mood reflects the availability of key resources in the environment, both external (food, allies, potential mates) and internal (fatigue, hormone levels, adequacy of hydration), and ensures that an animal does not waste precious time and energy on fruitless or even dangerous efforts (doing a mating dance when predators are lurking). Moods, like most adaptations, developed in species that had neither language nor culture.”
― Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

“Moods take longer to come on and to go away. They are an overall summary of the various cues around us. And usually they are harder to sort out.”
― Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

“Dubbed depressive realism, Alloy and Abramson’s work has inspired other, often quite sophisticated, experimental demonstrations of ways that low mood can lead to better, clearer thinking. Compared to subjects in a positive mood, subjects who were put in a negative mood (by watching a ten-minute film about death from cancer) produced more effective persuasive messages on a standardized topic such as raising student fees or aboriginal land rights. Follow-up analyses found that the key reason the sadder people were more persuasive was that their arguments were richer in concrete detail. If people who are in a sad mood sometimes assess the world quite accurately, people in a “normal,â€� healthy mood may be less in touch with reality. At least some data suggest that people in a normal mood can be prone to positive illusions, overconfidence, and blindness to faults.”
― Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic