Every time you tell your old story, you reactivate the…

“The privacy issue was reignited in early 2014, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook had conducted a massive social-science experiment on nearly…

— Jonathan Taplin

“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs…

— Gabor Maté

“real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don’t want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.

— Clay Clark

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

— Anonymous

“To the Dalai Lama, suffering and adversity are the necessary conditions for developing patience and tolerance. These qualities are vital if we want to…

— Victor Chan

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they…

— Hiromi

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

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

“People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly,” concludes Grob, “might start to see the world in a more negative light.”

— Susan Cain

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

— Dalai Lama

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to…

— Stephen Richards

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make…

— Napoleon Hill

It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have…

— Tenzin Palmo

“To get to our passion and purpose we must be willing to shine the light of awareness on the shadow parts of ourselves. If…

— Lee Lipsenthal