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“If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.”

Ifs Hands Negative Overcoming Hot Release Destructive Potatoes Overcoming Fear

Author:John Assaraf

“Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences.”

People Helping Past Fields Negative Overcoming Trauma Drs Helping People Pioneers Past Experiences

Author:Daniel Amen

“You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.”

“How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.”

People Problem Buddhism Negative Overcoming Abuse Misery Karma Negative Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.”

“Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.”

“The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.”

Way Light Darkness Cold Negative Overcoming Heat Substitutes Negative Thoughts Good Thoughts Power Subconscious Mind

Book:The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within

Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within

“If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stills Enough Pain Causes Acting Trouble Positive Thinking Negative Overcoming Positive Thoughts Somewhere Else Negative Thoughts Incoherence

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.”

Ifs Needs Giving Feels Children Moments Stories Felt Skills Negative Overcoming Our Children Your Children Hardship

Author:Bruce Feiler

“Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.”

Spiritual Path Negative Essence Overcoming Positivity Tendencies Positive Attitude Potential Spiritual Wisdom Negativity Spiritual Awakening Wise Man Once Said Spiritual Path Power Of Positive Thinking Spiritual Transformation Human Potential

Author:Dalai Lama

“Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.”

Should Faces Turns Challenges Negative Overcoming Stronger No Fear Makes You Stronger

Author:Gabriela Isler

“Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.”

Values Energy Poverty Economic Negative Overcoming Plant Carbon Right Direction Power Plants Economic Value

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say, "Don't be angry," it shows us the methods to help us not to be angry. It gives techniques for everything that it advises us to cultivate, and all the negative qualities we need to overcome and transform.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome.”

World Believe Stories Culture Taught Expectations Negative Opposites Overcoming Meant To Be Birthright

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.”

Helping Faith Emotion Negative Overcoming Help Me Equilibrium Negative Emotions

Author:Dalai Lama

“I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.”

Want Two Different Real Motivational Energy Goal Imagination Produce Negative Overcoming Dance Excitement Choke Apprehension

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

Ifs Want War Quality Yoga Negative Opposites Overcoming Deny Sweat Overcoming Fear

Author:Vishnudevananda Saraswati

“Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.”

Way Giving Ideas Character Life Is Parent Environment Teacher Example Messages Negative Overcoming Determine Determined Exposed Mentor Good Examples Heredity

Author:Michael Josephson

“Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.”

Problem Choices Common Attitude Circumstances Negative Stones Overcoming Determine Excuse Block Overwhelmed Stumbling Stepping Stones Achiever Stumbling Blocks

Book:Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)

Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)

“One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.”

“Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.”

Needs Mind Firsts Long Freedom Habit Negative Overcoming Rejection Negation

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.”

Love Force Emotion Compassion Negative Hatred Overcoming Like Love Love And Compassion Cultivating Negative Emotions

Book:Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama

Source: Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama

“To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation. Intuition is a neutral from of information that allows you to soberly gauge the validity of your worries. If you tune in and find out they're unfounded, you'll be relieved. If they are founded, you can develop a strategy to deal with them.”

Ifs Deals Emotion Worry Information Periods Offers Negative Overcoming Strategy Intuition Guides Nervous Alternatives Tunes Relieved Validity Agitation Consulting Gauges Negative Emotions

Author:Judith Orloff

“The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits.”

Purpose Existence Habit Negative Overcoming Judaism

Author:Vilna Gaon

“Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise”

People Ifs Happens Opportunity Please Promise Negative Overcoming Good Things Finals Obstacles Rage Things Happen Objectives Granted Good People Multitudes Traveled I Promise Detours

Author:Jeff Hardy

“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.”

Way Feelings Negative Overcoming Attraction Best Way Law Of Attraction Negative Thoughts Thoughts And Feelings Undesirable

Book:THOUGHT VIBRATION - The Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Unabridged): From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for Practical Mental Influence, The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings, Nuggets of the New Thought, Reincarnation and the Law of Karma

Source: THOUGHT VIBRATION - The Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Unabridged): From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for Practical Mental Influence, The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings, Nuggets of the New Thought, Reincarnation and the Law of Karma

“Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most people work at dying, but anybody can die; the easiest thing on this earth is to die. But to live takes guts; it takes energy, vitality, it takes thought. . . . We have so many negative influences out there that are pulling us down. . . . You've got to be strong to overcome these adversities . . . that's why I never stop.”

People Knows Life Earth Dies Energy Strong Influence Dying Tough Negative Overcoming Adversity Guts Negativity Pulling Vitality Negative Influence

Author:Jack LaLanne