Quotes About Negativity

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

We can all agree that social media is an amazing platform where we can interact with and meet people and that we probably would have never had the chance to otherwise, right? However, it also has sadly become a place where some people go to share negative thoughts and comments.

It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes.

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.

You can get eight thousand great, amazing messages, and someone will send you one thing that you're maybe self-conscious about, and that's the only thing in your head for the rest of the day.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Your vision makes your world. If you see the world as a happy, loving place, then that's where you're going to live. But if you see the world as a messed up, negative, and dangerous place, then that will be your reality.

Your mind is like a tug o' war, you gotta make sure the good side wins.

But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.

But hatred and viciousness are addictive.

hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them.

Whenever your thoughts spiral, work to identify the lie at the core of your negative thinking. Look up what Scripture says about it, denounce the lie, and declare the truth aloud with boldness.

Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.

Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

Its disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and Im comfortable with myself.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason.