Current Mood Sad Quotes

If you want to be a real person living in the real world, the first thing you must do is get off the grid. Take the first brave step and delete your Facebook profile. After all, you surely wouldn’t want the words carved on your headstone to be: “I was registered with Facebook. I had 101 online friends (and I even knew a few of them). My current mood is: Sad.

She had always been unpredictable. She rushed decisions based on her current mood and said things she quickly regretted. If she had been any other way, they would’ve never met. But this was something even her idiosyncrasies couldn’t justify.

Our current cultural ethos is that achieving happiness is like achieving other goals. If we simply work hard at it, we can master happiness, just as we can figure out how to use new computer software, play the piano or learn Spanish. However, if the goal of becoming happier is different from these other goals, efforts devoted to augmenting happiness may backfire, disappointing -and potentially depressing- us because we can't achieve our expected goal.

you as the reader must take care that the selection you choose is appropriate for the current mood of your youthful listener. But just because a story is sad or includes a tragic scene does not mean that it is, therefore, inappropriate for all children at all times.

One technical term for these cognitive effects of mood is mood-congruent memory, or the increased ability to think of content that matches our current mood state. In experiments, happy subjects retrieve memories of pleasant personal experiences more readily than those of unpleasant experiences, whereas sad subjects retrieve sad memories more readily than happy ones. The utility of mood congruency is that a mood will automatically cue up thoughts and memories that are most relevant to the present situation. In the case of a sad mood, we automatically bring thoughts and memories about losses to mind.