Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it."
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DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"If you think of something negative and you keep it in your head, you are going to actually live that. Now, if you think of something great and positive and joyful, you're going to actually live that. You've got to be careful what you put in your head. Basically, I'll call that: "Don't ever play yourself.""
The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
"A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done."
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue."
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"In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them."
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"The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes."
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"Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time."
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"Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative."
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"No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there."
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"I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place."
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"Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful."
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"When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you."
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"Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving."
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"I think you should always be seeking negative feedback."
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"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else."
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"Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time"
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"It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side."
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"Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it."
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"If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative."
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"Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully."
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"Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code."
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"If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output."
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"To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility."
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"I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."
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