Emotional Effort Quotes

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle.'

Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

It's not easy to put a smile on people's faces.

I'm sure I tried being mean at one point, and I don't think it worked. It's too much work.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

It's so emotional. You train so hard. I know the hours we put into it.

It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.

It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.

Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.

It's a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.