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“Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.”

Thinking May Form Emotion Behavior Negative Optimism Addiction Familiar Pleasant Destructive Invoke Negative Thinking Destructive Behavior

Author:Lauren Mackler

“In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.”

Beautiful Hate Emotion Football Soccer Analysis Manifestation Destructive Beautiful Things Sustaining

Author:Nicky Campbell

“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”

Ifs Self Purpose Pleasure Emotion Brain Emotional Anger Blow Cruelty Poison Destructive Substitutes Justification Justified Triggers Loathing Self Loathing Tornadoes

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.”

Care Emotion Responsibility Tears Easier Protect Ambition Deny Heal Preserves Destructive Wielding Power

Book:Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

Source: Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

“To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.”

Needs Emotion Compassion Example Destructive Constructive Love And Compassion

Author:Dalai Lama

“When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.”

Real Helping Emotion Attitude Standards Negative Release Destructive Our Thoughts Negative Emotions

Book:Loving God with All Your Mind

Source: Loving God with All Your Mind

“Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.”

Ifs Self Running Desire Fear Deals Emotion Impossible Blow Self Confidence Destructive

Author:Robert Anthony

“Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.”

Self Joy Emotion Impulse Destructive Irrational Sanctuary Self Destructive

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.”

Needs Giving Heart Self Effort Emotion Greater Violence And Love Violent Destructive Openness Rooted Self Destructive Giving And Receiving Love And Freedom

Book:Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex