Mark Vonnegut Quotes

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

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.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

I don't take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there's some sickness with people like that.

I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.

I'm calm some days, sweet some days.

I think I have a threshold for taking things too seriously.

Oh, I've always been very... Emotional. 'Hypersensitive' is what they call it, I think.

When things aren't going right, I can get out on the golf course, and when things are going really good on the court, I can go and enjoy the scenery, enjoy the weather. And when I'm too high, I can have golf humble me and beat me up a little bit.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.