Negative Emotions Quotes

• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Loneliness, Happy Life, Play

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

  Brian Tracy

  Enemy, Negative, Emotion

  Brian Tracy (2010). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.28, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Negative, Guests

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• A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

  Vernon Howard

  Understanding, Negative, Emotion

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• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Negative, Firsts

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.43, Penguin

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• The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions... let's call them Action Signals.

  Tony Robbins

  Negative, Action, Emotion

  "Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!". Book by Tony Robbins, 1991.

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• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Responsibility, Law, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.161, Penguin

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• Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Anger, Opportunity

  "Stand on your own two feet" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

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• My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.

  Tony Robbins

  Philosophy, Emotional, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 12, 2014

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• The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Strong, Pain

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Ocean, Love You, Mind

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• A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Men, Negative

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• When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

  Farrah Abraham

  Rushing, Negative, Emotion

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• If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

  Matthew D. Miller

  Desire, Negative, Want

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• You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Creative, Degrees, Negative

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 18, 2013

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• If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

  Jane McGonigal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

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• The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Spiritual, People, Negative

  "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1950.

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• You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Negative, Emotion

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• There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Fear, Hate, Opposites

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• Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

  Norman Cousins

  Happiness, Laughter, Block

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• You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Tired, Somewhere Else, People

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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• 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 all become beautiful.

  Hiromi

  Beautiful, Sadness, Frustration

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• I don't feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don't feel any emotions at all.

  Conor McGregor

  Fighting, Mma, Get Better

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• I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover!

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Fun, Years, Ideas

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Karma, Real

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