Quotes About Negativity

Self-pity" is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

Tell ourselves we feel wonderful when we feel bad, the badness fades with every suggestion. Tell ourselves we feel terrible when we feel bad, we get worse every word. Suggestions intensify.

In a low state of mind, everything seems really bad and worse than it probably is.

I have devoted a whole book (Unweaving the Rainbow) to ultimate meaning, to the poetry of science, and to rebutting, specifically and at length, the charge of nihilistic negativity, so I shall restrain myself here.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS

En esencia, nuestras múltiples creencias negativas revelan una creencia negativa central: a favor de otro, debemos abandonar un sueño bueno y deseado.

recuerda siempre que las opiniones negativas de tu Censor no son la verdad.

the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.

Mas o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coração.

The hanifs had little impact on their contemporaries, because they were chiefly concerned with their own personal salvation. They had no desire to reform the social or moral life of Arabia, and their theology was essentially negative. Instead of creating something new, they simply withdrew from the mainstream. Indeed the word hanif may derive from the root HNF: "to turn away from." They had a clearer idea of what they did not want than a positive conception of where they were going.

purely negative approach

Must you always see the dark side of everything?' Julia said. 'Someone has to,' Jackson said. 'Yes, but does it have to be you?' Apparently, yes. It did.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

Many of us live that life where we are only happy when there's a good day passing by, instead of being sad when there's one bad day passing leaving us confused.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

Being a positive person doesn't mean you never have negative thoughts. It just means you don't allow them space to take root and grow to control your life.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.