Quotes About Negativity

Hate will consume more of your time and happiness.

If you see life as a battle, then a battle is what you will get; the struggle ends when you let go to seek peace instead. Life is a reflection of what you think, if your thoughts are filled with negativity, the world you see will be the same.

Some people will better your life by being in it, while others will better it by staying out of it. Thank you fake friends for staying out of my life!

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

Our thoughts have incredible, life changing power. Make sure your own worst enemy is not living between your own two ears.

Choosing to live a life in a cynical negative matter, doubting every opportunity, and doubting every God-given ability that you possess, is in effect choosing to live a life bound by the chains of mental slavery.

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.

grandmother used to say, you can always find something wrong with someone else if you really want to.

Sometimes the best, the most prudent, the most charitable thing that we can do is to give these people a wide berth. But when we have to deal with such people, we need to give up the futile goal of trying to talk them out of their negativity (or to beat it out of them, as the protagonist of Cheever's story tried to do with his brother Lawrence), and simply love them as best we can, without expecting them to change.

If you find yourself in conversation with someone you know and that person brings up someone you both know and before he says another word you mutter, "That guy's a fucking asshole," you might be a little bitter. If you find yourself dismissing universally acclaimed landmark achievements, saying, for example, "The Godfather is an okay movie," you might be bitter.

Some people don't even realize they're bitter. If you don't know whether you are or not, here's a quick quiz you can give yourself. If you ever wake up in the morning and the first thing you say is "Oh, fuck, not again," you might be a little bitter.

It is lovely to imagine that real divinity is the presence in which all beauty, unity, creativity, darkness, and negativity are harmonized.

The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness;

I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.

They were the kind of people whose unhappiness tended to become your unhappiness, to say nothing of your screaming agony.

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.

Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be.

I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.

I don't care what you do as long as I don't have anything to do with it. I guess no matter how weak and negative a good man is, he has as many sins on him as he can bear. I have enough sins to trouble me. Maybe they aren't very fine sins compared to some, but, the way I feel, they're all I can take care of. Please forgive me.

I think... no, I am positive... that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we've been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.

The biggest risk is that a lot of people will try to talk you out of pursuing your dream. The world has too many people who are happy to discuss why something might not work, and too few who will cheer you and say, I'm there for you. The more time you spend navel-gazing, the longer you give those negative gravitational forces to keep you in their tether.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.