“Everything turns to callous eventually. That’s life.”— Louis Sachar, Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Jon Voight, imdb.com
“I think most people thought we were just like these brooding, negative guys. I was psyched, man. I was.”— Dave Grohl, amazon.com
“I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend. I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows an…”— Andy Biersack, hardrockdaddy.com
“You can be happy, Paul, you just have to identify what's negative in your life and then get rid of it.”— Josann McGibbon, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com
“The world's a scary place, you know? It can be really sad and stressful and negative. I try to counterbalance that. I believe everything in life is energy. If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a…”— Ellen Degeneres, goodhousekeeping.com
“The mind has a tendency to mull over negative experiences with greater detail than positive oneres, especially when we are attempting to create change or develop something different in our lives.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“The human brain’s negativity bias, which wires us to give more attention to the negative than to the positive, means feeling bad can become so familiar that it almost feels good.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“I'm calling for my test results. Negative? Oh, my God. WHY! WHY! WHY? What? What? Negative is good? Oh, yes of course! How stupid of me. Thank you.”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“My girlfriend is like the square root of negative 100... A solid 10; but imaginary”— Abraxyn, reddit.com
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion Give it up and you will be free.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Dead as dead can be,’ my doctor tells me But I just can’t believe him, never the optimistic one I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe Someday I will walk away and say, ‘You disappoint me,’ Maybe you’re better off this way.”— Maynard James Keenan, open.spotify.com
“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 s…”— Alfred A. Montapert, allpoetry.com
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”— Frank Herbert, amazon.com
“OCD focuses on the negative. I didn't think to myself, my praying will save my grandma. Instead, I thought, If I don't pray, my grandma will die for sure.”— J.J. Keeler, amazon.com
“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”— Michael Bassey Johnson, amazon.com
“Avoid negative tones and always be positive about yourself. Your profile is essentially your dating CV. You wouldn’t want a future employer to read anything negative, so why would you want a potential partner to read anything that isn’t positive?”— Francesca Rice, marieclaire.co.uk