We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Negative feelings weigh you down and can keep you from experiencing healing, as surely as stones might weigh you down if you… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live.… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“When I am tired, it is easy to believe that my exhaustion is the reason I am depressed and lonely and uninspired.… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
“Joy and Sorrow can neither be created nor be destroyed. It can only be transferred from one living being to another. The… — Swapnil Thakur Copy Share Image
“It’s not the hurt that others cause to us that counts, but our response to it that matters; if a positive outlook… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from… — Julie K. Norem Copy Share Image
“Negative feelings are more often alleviated when they are ignored rather than pampered. When you act positively in spite of negative emotions,… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
... negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Hark,” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?” Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn't feel like you're stupid when you're frustrated doing something. You might say to… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We should be inspired by our past and be confident about our future. We should not harvest negative feelings from our own… — Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
“Those who say it is hypocritical to take positive action when they have negative feelings are operating on the assumption that the… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings… — Kenneth Wapnick Copy Share Image
“Maybe Hell isn’t a literal place with fire and sulfur and pitchforks — maybe it’s just the things we bring with us.… — Taylor Adams Copy Share Image
People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset,… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“What happens too often when we criticize someone is that we accompany it with strong, negative feelings. We criticize without ever mentioning… — Joel R. Beeke Copy Share Image
Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep… — Elizabeth O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The Boomers were the first modern generation to harbor really negative feelings about reality and science, and their success in undermining these… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image