Balanced Emotions Quotes

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

I've never been a blind romantic.

I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon depression upon depression. It's a blend.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

I play for a living, but I also love to play. That's a healthy balance of emotion that, as a player, you have to keep balanced.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.

Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.

I don't need to be too intense. I don't play my best golf when I'm super-intense.

I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.