Arnold Palmer Quotes

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the most part.

Emotions are the same to all human beings. But there is some difference in the way people react to situations.

Your thoughts cause your feelings.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.