negativity quotes

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

We live in ugly times.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

I have good days and bad days.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?