Quotes About Negativity

We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Every depressing and disturbing thought that enters your brain, has a depressing effect on every cell of your body, and tends to produce disease. All negative thoughts are forerunners of disease, and they are messengers of death.

the practice of mindfulness defuses our negativity, aggression, pain, suffering, and frustration

I call your head a bad neighborhood because your head is full of a lot of babbling, conflicting information; most of it not yours, and most of it really bad.

That's why I'm still worrying, at some level. I'm trying to think positively about a negative situation, when I should be trying to believe that there's nothing negative about the situation.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

La negatividad no puede mantenerse sin algo a lo que aferrarse. El positivismo y la felicidad pueden existir sin ninguna razón.

Otherwise, every act has something positive and something negative.

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.""You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

Amos willed himself to be optimistic, because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

When you have a lot of followers, you get the good and bad. So I had a career out of it. But unfortunately, I had people hating on me every single day.

I don't ever read chat rooms, because if you've got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

There's so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

We always get rejections, whether it's in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in. But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.

The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others' light