All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
When I'm in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they're in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.
I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.
Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.
I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.
If you're hanging out with two negative people, do they equal one positive person?
Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
People like to be around those who give off positive energy.
Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
If I panic, everyone else panics.
As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.
I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.
And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.
Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
