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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?

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.