Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned
There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.
The stage is such an investment, and it's so emotional that it's really hard to tell how that will go.
The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.
You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.
You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It's either gone really well or really terribly.
The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.
It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart.
Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.
