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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Thich Nhat Hanh Topic: Negativity

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Shirley MacLaine Topic: Negativity

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard Topic: Negativity

Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?

Steve Elias Topic: Negativity

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Rita Mae Brown Topic: Negativity

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Dr Hans Selye Topic: Negativity

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A Montapert Topic: Negativity

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

John F Boyes Topic: Negativity

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon Topic: Negativity

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Thomas Fuller Topic: Negativity

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Edward F Halifax Topic: Negativity

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

M Henry Topic: Negativity

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

G S Hillard Topic: Negativity

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Bobby Hull Topic: Negativity

They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight.

Marshall Pugh Topic: Negativity

God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Theodore L Cuyler Topic: Negativity

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.

Ralph Chaplin Topic: Negativity

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

Charles I Topic: Negativity

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Rufus Choate Topic: Negativity

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie Ebner Eschenbach Topic: Negativity

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