"Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in."
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"If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in negative ways. Therefore, while you are learning, don't forget the importance of warmheartedness."
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"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."
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"It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in a negative place and attract a negative partner and then try to get happy from that negative place."
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"You are of no advantage to anyone who has your negative attention."
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"Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable."
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"A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure."
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"Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all."
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"I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist."
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"You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed."
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"Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch."
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"Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective."
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"The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage."
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"To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature."
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"Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative."
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"Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman."
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"It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves."
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"Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have."
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"For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them."
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"May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it."
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