Negative Quotes - Page 9

• Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

  Eckhart Tolle

  Learning, Lessons, May

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 19, 2009

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• The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

  Hermann Broch

  Art, Evil, Doe

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• If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “The Magic”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspiring, Simple, Two

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Negativity, Feelings, Reacting

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivation, Healthy, Source

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• There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Pain, Powerful

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.42, Jaico Publishing House

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• The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Practice, Greed

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.85, Penguin

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• No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

  Charles Lyell

  Facts, Valleys, Tools

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

  Curtis Jackson

  Energy, Opponents, Defeat

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• Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

  Curtis Jackson

  Hurt, Mean, Happens

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• Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.

  Jon Hamm

  Believe, Silly, Talking

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• Every year I tell myself that I’m not going to read any reviews and then I do. We’re all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us of negative emotions, thought patterns, and prejudices that may weigh us down like undigested food.

  David Frawley

  Children, Eye, Medicine

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• I think that the media is as divided on this issue [of gay marriage] as the Obama family — which is to say not at all. And so he’s never going to get negative coverage for this....When you have almost the entire media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign, it’s very hard to lose politically.

  Mark Halperin

  Gay, Thinking, Your Side

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• But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

  Jeannette Walls

  Giving, Silence, Tree

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Preparation, Steel

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• The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that far outweigh the physical dangers that we often emphasize. I believe the chances are that our children will respond to the positive attitude quicker and more thoroughly than they do to the negative. Let's show them the values that there are in that law.

  Antoine R. Ivins

  Spiritual, Children, Attitude

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• It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Kuwait, America

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• The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Strong, War, Long

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• There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.

  Marissa Mayer

  Opportunity, Thinking, Amazing Opportunities

  "How Marissa Mayer writes her own rules" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

  Azar Nafisi

  Challenges, Culture, Tradition

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!

  Phil Heath

  Pain, Giving, Lazy

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• All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

  Bill Crawford

  Powerful, Three, Way

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• When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

  Indra Nooyi

  Emotional, Assuming, Amazed

  "The best advice I ever got". Fortune Interview, archive.fortune.com. 2008.

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