Ann Brashares Quotes

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

I'm not the kind of girl who breaks down in public.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.

Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

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.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.