Lily Tomlin Quotes

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

I react emotionally to everything!

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I was a very sensitive kid who then had to condition myself to desensitize.

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I am very emotional.

I wake up in the night screaming sometimes when I've had a fight with my husband, more than with the company. I still sleep very well. I take it day by day. I am a very pragmatic person. That's how I survive.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

I think people with anxiety do different things during different years, and for me, I waded through my anxiety during the last two years with men, and flirting, and dating, and this thing and that thing, and so that's going to stop, and that has stopped.

If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.

Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had.

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.