Quotes About Negativity

The good is mostly in the absence of bad";

Finally, this explains why people who look too closely at randomness burn out, their emotions drained by the series of pangs they experience. Regardless of what people claim, a negative pang is not offset by a positive one (some psychologists estimate the negative effect for an average loss to be up to 2.5 the magnitude of a positive one); it will lead to an emotional deficit.

The good is not as good as the absence of bad.

When we eliminate negatives, we clear the way for the emergence of positives, and when we cultivate positives, negatives often weaken or disappear.

Nothing awful is without its beautiful side.

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

There's always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

It was worse than Music Appreciation.

If you quote what the devil says, it will create the image of what he wants to happen inside you. Remember fear-filled words produce fear. Faith-filled words produce faith.

Sometimes it's our stinkin' thinkin' that gets us in trouble. You know---one stinkin' thought leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another. Eventually the smell will kill you!

If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.

There's a lot of people out there who are just miserable in their own lives, I guess, and just trying to make other people miserable as well to bring themselves up. There's no shortage of that, that's for sure.

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

Miserable people tend to act out.

People who worry about stupid things, just end up looking miserable after a while - it shows.

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

The more successful you become the more people want to put you down. I've always been very clear on where I stand with that and I'm happy with who I am when I go to sleep.

To me, I absolutely cannot stand Twitter. I hate it more than anything.

There is only one thing you have to know about the future: everything gets worse.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Unpleasant feelings merely indicate that you are thinking something negative and believing it. Your

A bureaucrat who said no to everything rarely got in trouble.

I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough.

to counter negativity in the mind is a classical Buddhist teaching called "replacing with the opposite";