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“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

Thinking Looks Body Form Hate Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Negative Angry Subtle Negative Thoughts Sitting Around

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.”

Mind Use Moving Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Flow Remove Finding Yourself Willpower Dwelling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.”

Ifs Persons Hard Energy Powerful Consciousness Hard Work Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Crash Meditating Negative Thoughts Bad Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Down And Angry That Moment Jealous Pauses Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.”

Matter Facts Political Negative Campaigns Ads More Money Senators Matter Of Fact Political Campaign

Author:John McCain

“I have vision boards, and people think that I put the vision board up and I look at it all the time, but what I do is, when I'm having an emotional time and I'm stressed out or feeling bad, I go to the store and get all the stuff for a vision board. Instead of channeling the negative thoughts or being depressed, I change it around and I start making boards.”

People Thinking Looks Feelings Stuff Vision Emotional Negative Stores Boards Stressed Negative Thoughts Channeling Stressed Out Feeling Bad Being Depressed Vision Board

Author:Ester Dean

“Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.”

People Want Emotion Negative Clouds Hip Hop Hips Make Sense Thrive Hops Over It

Author:Kid Cudi

“It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.”

People Needs Reason Facts Negative Vote Facts Of Life

Author:Chris Matthews

“Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.”

Thinking Lasts Friendship Negative Superiority

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.”

Humans Principles Human Nature Pride Spring Lows Weakness Negative Ancestry

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.”

Should Self Easy Difficult Emotion Discipline Negative Self Discipline Negative Emotions Conscientiousness

Author:Dalai Lama

“Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.”

States Action Existence Research Negative Performing Iron Examination Rust

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.”

People Young Negative Reactions Destructive Rock N Roll Aphrodisiac

Author:Frank Sinatra

“The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.”

Mind Hard Wanted Fun Goal Term Serious Calling Pure Negative Lifetime Finals Alternatives Analysis Occupation Offering Short Term Hippie Colorful

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.”

Thinking Habit Negative Addiction Negative Thinking

Author:Peter McWilliams

“We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.”

Way Attitude Negative Hot Over It Cynical

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.”

Done Reality Wish Sun Tomorrow Negative Optimism Yeah Clean Mess Brands Flash Daylight Brand New

Author:Bobby Knight

“Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.”

Play Form Space Roles Shapes Negative Drawing Checks Accuracy Space Between Negatives Make

Author:Stan Smith

“There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.”

Ifs Way Stills Ideas Use Might Attitude Moral Clothes Negative Our Society Inherent Femininity Seductive Negative Attitude

Author:Demi Moore

“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.”

People Thinking Jesus Religious Simple Practice Taught Majors Negative Police Violent Hateful Liberated Negative Thoughts Religious Practices

Author:Richard Rohr

“Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.”

Used Effort Negative Boredom Suppressing

Author:Leonard Orr

“I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.”

Self Done Belief Havens Negative Negative Thoughts Belief In Self

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.”

Way Light Space Knowing Teacher Week Changed Draws Shadow Negative Drawing Proportion Not Knowing Portraits Space Between Sketching Light And Shadow Negative Space

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?”

People Way Persons Sometimes Choices Goal Negative Intention Grades Seventh Grade

Author:Kirstie Alley

“Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.”

People Way Two Light Opportunity Levels Views Higher Negative Institutions Competition Excellence Destructive Two Ways Higher Level

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.”

Wells Doe Faces Individual Levels Survival Negative Adversity Resilience Well Being Persist Maintenance Resilient High Level Facing Adversity

Author:Richard Davidson

“Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.”

Inspiration Choices Negative Positivity Changing Your Life Life Choices

Author:Michael Kitson

“Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Jesus Church Negative Institutions Threat Attraction Labels Vietnam Stereotype Distrust Reminders Dropping Generic Watergate Negative Stereotypes

Author:Eddie Gibbs

“Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.”

Doubt Negative Cynicism

Author:Adyashanti

“Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.”

Self Forgiveness Negative Forgiving Resentment Diminish Poisoning

Author:Robert Muller

“Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.”

Heart Joy Negative Optimism Limitation

Author:Betty Eadie

“If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.”

Ifs Silence Understood Negative Our Words

Author:Betty Eadie

“So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.”

Long Important Would Be Term Interest Wealth Effects Negative Rate Spending Long Term Decline Interest Rate

Author:Joseph Barbera

“People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Seems Asks Steps Player Negative Ask Me Insult Ems Keyboards New Music Keyboard Players

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.”

Should Self Use Hands Desire Energy Enemy Conflict Weapons Negative Possession Reputation Demon Attachment Frightened True Self Rejecting Negative Energy

Author:Teresa Giudice

“Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.”

Women Negative Property Slave

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”

Trying Said Hard Motivational Solutions Tough Negative Difficulty Average Thinker Realist Factual Positive Thinker

Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions”

Thinking Looks Doe Form Results Worst Conditions Positive Thinking Negative Refuse Thinker Positive Thinker

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop an unreasoning hatred for, so we come to hate and fear. This not only injures us psychologically and aggravates world tension, but through such negative concentration we tend to attract the things we fear. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and example of love and of faith!”

Ifs World Needs Hate Greater Example This World Messages Negative Hatred Good Things Inner Peace Block Tension Concentration Fear Not Fear Nothing Hate And Fear Examples Of Love

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.”

“Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.”

Thinking Results Positive Thinking Negative Negative Thinking Positive Thinking In Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.”

Doe Negative Refuse Thinker Positive Thinker

Book:The amazing results of positive thinking

Source: The amazing results of positive thinking

“I tend to take negative comments to heart.”

Heart Negative Comment Negative Comments

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.”

Doe Seems Science Taken Genius Negative Errors Always Wrong

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.”

Negative Optimism Weed Dwelling Negative Thoughts

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side.”

Needs Helping Sides Beats Negative Bills Advertising Your Side

Author:Charlie Norwood

“Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more.”

Different Energy Women Enlightenment Picks Negative Rate Vibrate Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We don't have to feel negative about weeds. They're a part of life. We need to see them, acknowledge them, focus on the solution, and immediately do whatever it takes to eliminate their influence from our lives.”

Needs Feels Motivational Focus Our Lives Influence Solutions Negative Acknowledge Weed Parts Of Life Whatever It Takes

Author:Tony Robbins

“You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.”

Source: A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

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