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Quotes About Negativity

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago.
~ Seth Godin
Delete, delete, delete. No way am I letting their negativity mess me up. I have enough to worry about.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Evolutionary biologists tell us we have a "negativity bias" that makes our brains remember negative events more strongly than positive ones. So when we're feeling lost or discouraged, it can be very hard to conjure up memories and feelings of happiness and ease.
~ Sharon Salzberg
People like to talk shit, but it's usually to justify their own apathy.
~ Shepard Fairey
People suck. (Nero)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The man hates your guts more than Stryker does. You'll be lucky if he doesn't pull your spine out through your nostrils. (Tory) Nice to have Miss Merry Sunshine back again. Any other Eeyore outlooks you'd like to share? (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
~ David Lynch
At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?
~ Peggy Noonan
I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.
~ Rob Brydon
If you can pinpoint the moments in social media that are really negative experiences, those are the ones you can cut out. And when you do, you recognize how much better your life is.
~ Kim Stolz
We're all not exactly the same person online that we are in real life. I am not as happy as my Instagram makes me look. We are all heightening the positives and downplaying the negatives.
~ Kim Stolz
You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life.
~ Marcus Giles
Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
~ Mark Skousen
You cannot get rid of the positive and negative balance. If you try to put on a facade for the world about how positive and upbeat you are, there will be chaos in your private life or your personal health.
~ John F. Demartini
When negative feelings are suppressed positive feelings become suppressed as well, and love dies.
~ John Gray
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
~ John Grisham
People are good but we don't really get to hear about them because the media is only interested in the freak show; it makes the world look much worse than it is.
~ John Larkin
Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.
~ John Marsden
Know what you get when you rearrange the letters in Nate Wetherill? HATE WILL ENTER.
~ Elise Allen
All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.
~ Elizabeth Strout
La crítica hiere a las personas, el prejuicio, las anula.
~ Augusto Cury
El rechazo de una idea negativa podrá hacernos esclavos de ella. Rechace a una persona, y ella dormirá con usted, arruinándole el sueño. Perdonarla resulta emocionalmente más barato.
~ Augusto Cury
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
~ Author Unknown