John Ruskin Quotes

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.

It changes over the course of life, depending on how you're feeling. There's this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you're hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible to be happy, or to achieve happiness. Happiness sounds like this magical destination that you arrive at and then everything is sort of solved, or it's different.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.