Lucinda Williams Quotes

If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.

When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.