Yoko Ono Quotes

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

No person is just one particular emotion.

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.

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

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.

We are made up of multiple emotions. And it would be unnatural to completely eliminate even one or two or three of those. It's impossible. You'd become a robot if the emotions weren't there.

I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.