Denying negative emotions leads to experiencing deeper and…

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

“if you feel crappy it’s because your brain is telling you that there’s a problem that’s unaddressed or unresolved. In other words, negative emotions…

— Mark Manson

“Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change." ... "In other words, negative emotions are a call…

— Mark Manson

“Negative emotions are a necessary component of emotional health. To deny that negativity is to perpetuate problems rather than solve them.”

— Mark Manson

“In other words, negative emotions are a call to action. When you feel them, it’s because you’re supposed to do something. Positive emotions, on…

— Mark Manson

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