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Quotes About Negativity

Happiness is lost by criticising it; sorrow by accepting it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace.
~ James Allen
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.
~ James Allen
To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self made prison-hole.
~ James Allen
Los pensamientos en la mente nos hacen lo que somos Nos forjan y moldean. Si albergas en tu mente pensamientos inferiores, el dolor te seguirá como sigue el arado al buey . . . Si en cambio tus pensamientos son elevados, te seguirá la dicha como tu propia sombra, es un hecho.
~ James Allen
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn
~ James Allen
Todo lo que somos es el resultado de lo que hemos pensado. Está fundado en nuestros pensamientos; está hecho de nuestros pensamientos". Así dijo Buda, y por consiguiente se entiende que si un hombre es feliz, es porque tiene pensamientos felices; y si es miserable, es por que insiste en tener pensamientos de derrota y debilidad.
~ James Allen
A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts.
~ James Allen
Dwelling on negativity won't suddenly have positive results. It only brings more negativity into your head. You can't buy happiness with the currency of unhappiness. The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.
~ James Altucher
Engage with nobody who is bad to you. When you get in the mud with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.
~ James Altucher
What happens when you stop gossiping? You have more time (gossiping consumes a lot of time). You have more friends. You have no risk of insulting the people who you otherwise would have insulted. And you gradually move ahead in the ranks of everyone who succumbed the shortcomings of gossip.
~ James Altucher
Always remember, child,' her first teacher had impressed on her, 'that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.
~ James Clavell
Always remember, child,' her first teacher had impressed on her, 'that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline—training—is about.
~ James Clavell
that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.
~ James Clavell
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness.
~ James Clavell
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind by itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts however requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline-training- is about.
~ James Clavell
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.
~ James Frey
I have a theory, which is that the idea of a roast is to go to this forbidden, uncomfortable, almost performance-art-level shock place, but because we're so regularly shocked and offended today, the idea of an hour and a half of unbridled negativity is just so unappealing.
~ Whitney Cummings
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'
~ Marc Faber
The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.
~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~ Vernon Howard
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
~ Chuck D
It's so unfortunate because people have become so comfortable being mean.
~ Rachel Lindsay