Quotes About Negativity

Most of the positive things in life are often preceded by negatvities, paradoxically. For example, we gain strength only after realizing our weaknesses. We learn to love unconditionally only after experiencing the hate directed towards us. We become more tolerant and proponents of equality only after the discrimination that world throws at us. We thus grow and mature with the flow of life, always negating the negativity, and moving upwards and onwards.

Négativité niant travaille parfois beaucoup mieux que d'envisager la positivité, surtout dans les moments froids, sombres et misérables de la vie, quand tout semble sombre sans rayon de soleil." - Deo

Sometimes negating negativity works far better than envisioning positivity, especially in the cold, dark and miserable moments of life, when everything appears bleak with no ray of Sunshine.

Subtraction's overrated. It's like adding, only backwards. You're not ever going to need it.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

I eat "NOs" for breakfast.

Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue Greatness anyways!

No matter what amount of negativity you are presented with, 5 minutes from now could be the best moment of your life.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak-or at least think- critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everyting. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hopee or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.

Alex consistently distorts or misperceives situations so that they reinforce his lifetrap. His view of situations is inaccurate: he feels people are attacking and humiliating him even when they are not. He has a strong bias to interpret events as proving he is defective, exaggerating the negative and minimizing the positive.

What is a positive attitude? The simple definition is the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Interestingly, it's also the definition of a negative attitude.

I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.

Hope in a genuine sense, in any sense worth talking about, is irrevocably tied to failure, and to the criticism of what has and continues to fail us. I always get a little depressed when people think of my poems as simply dark. All of the negativity is really just a way of trying to find something that could honestly be called positive.

As Scott Stratten, author of UnMarketing says: "Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer.

And even if someone is nasty, recognize the safe people who guard your story. They deserve to be in your stable and be trusted with your truth. As for the others? As Scott Stratten, author of UnMarketing says: "Don't try to win over the haters; you're not the jackass whisperer."2 (I will now abuse this phrase with reckless abandon.) That brings

Worrying is praying for stuff you don't want.

Desperation repels, gratitude attracts.

Your always look for the worst in people," said Love reproachfully. "And I always find it," Death said.

There was a lot of Sullen Malarkey on John's part.

Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It's important to get those down but they don't need to stick around after you do

It's wrong to anticipate evil.

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.