Paul Valery Quotes

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don't show it. I know how to hide my emotions.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

I find it dull when my heart meets my mind

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.