Zadie Smith Quotes

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I'm very sensitive - I'll cry during every movie or commercial - but when it comes to my own feelings, I don't really think about them that much unless I'm making music. Otherwise, I'm either checked out or laughing because that's how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

When I was a player, all the pressures I felt created a lot of anxiety in me. I didn't know how to manage that on my own. I think I was missing someone - a manager, no doubt - who could teach me to control my emotions.