“Negative emotions are a necessary component of emotional health. To deny that negativity is to perpetuate problems rather than solve them.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The ability to quickly create a positive meaning to the events in our life is a great aid to being happy. Yet,… — Jonathan Robinson Copy Share Image
I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity. — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
“I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. But… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. — David Landes Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
An entire sea of water cant sing a ship unless it gets inside the ship. similarly the negativity of the world can't… — James Merrow Copy Share Image
“You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner… — Kyra Gregory Copy Share Image
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function over form. It’s not a question of optimism or pessimism,… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Can't stand bitter, angry people. That shit is negativity that just needs to go somewhere else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I think in the end, anger and negativity from other people is all about what's going on inside them. So I don't… — Jeremy Vine Copy Share Image
I'd try to explain that it's not really negativity or sadness anymore, it's more just this detached, meaningless fog where you can't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
