Janis Joplin Quotes

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

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

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

We think too much and feel too little.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

I'm very big on feeling.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong.

Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

I try not to be overly analytical.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.