When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got…

“She was right about something else too,ʺ Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality…

— Richelle Mead

I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles…

— James Patterson

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

“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

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

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Susan Cain

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

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

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

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Clay Clark

“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

“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

“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