Negative Emotions Quotes

“It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith Grob asked people to hide their emotions when she showed them disgusting images. She even had them hold pens in their mouths to prevent them from frowning. She found that this group reported feeling less disgusted by the pictures than did those who'd been allowed to react naturally. Later, however, the people who hid their emotions suffered side effects. Their memory was impaired, and the negative emotions they'd suppressed seemed to color their outlook. When Grob had them fill in the missing letter to the word "gr_ss", for example, they were more likely than others to offer "gross" rather than "grass". "People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly," concludes Grob, "might start to see their world in a more negative light." p. 223”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Depression, anger, and sadness are states of mind, and so are happiness, peace, and contentment. You can choose to be in any of these states because it's your mind.”
― Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

“Rehashing thoughts of painful events from the past or imagining negative events of the future is self-abuse and can be more destructive than physical harm.”
― Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

“The only way to understand the reason behind someone's hurtful behaviour is -

Understanding that every action is driven by an underlying emotion. Emotions especially the negative one's are our reactions to the conflict between our beliefs and reality.

The influence of these negative emotions, causes us to act in ways that hurt others.

So if someone hurts you, it actually indicates
that they have an unsatisfied need or a wound
that needs attention.”
― Wordions

“Forgiveness is required to dissolve all the negative energy cords because it releases shame, guilt, anger, hatred, etc.”
― Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

“A lot is being done to cure physical self-harm, and yet it's a by-product of mental self-harm!”
― Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

“Overthinking arises when you unconsciously provoke negative emotions and thoughts and avoid positive emotions and thoughts.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“Being a positive person doesn’t mean you don’t feel negative emotions. It means you have faith in your ability to get through tough situations, hope for better days and the willingness to see beyond the drama.”
― Leticia Rae

“Spring is coming....Time for some cleaning. Remove all the self-doubt, worry, jealousy, regret, anger, guilt, or any other negative emotions that are holding you back from your happy, fulfilled life.”
― Nanette Mathews

“Gratitude for what we have instead of regret for what we don’t is one of the most effective ways of neutralizing bad attitudes and negative emotions.”
― charles f. glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“Cultivate love within you and all your negative emotions will soon disappear.”
― Sri Avinash Do

“Negative emotions are heavy baggage that slowly burns you down”
― Tonmoy Acharjee

“If you have no one to tell you, I’m telling you now; whatever negative thing you’re carrying around or trying to keep hidden, whatever is occupying your thoughts and your time, takes an enormous amount of stamina to sustain.  It is sucking your energy and taking your power.  If it is someone who has harmed you, they don’t deserve your time or energy.  If it is the loss of someone you deeply love, they wouldn’t want that for you.  Either way, take back your power.  Claim it.  Turn it around.  Reassign it.  Use it for your benefit.  Do it now”
― Amie Gabriel, KINTSUKUROI HEART: More Beautiful For Having Been Broken

“Negative emotional states are a breeding ground for mistakes.”
― Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

“Our emotions, especially the negative ones, gather color and intensity from the difference between our perceptions of what is right or good and the reality.
The key to inner peace is not suppressing emotions but flexing perceptions.
The more accepting, tolerant and understanding we become towards other perspectives and possibilities, the more our perceptional flexibility increases and lesser power our emotions gain over us.”
― Drishti Bablani

“Negative emotions are like waves - they rise up to their peak and then fall and fade away. We avoid negative emotions because they feel so bad, but also because they can sometimes feel like they will stay forever. We can become afraid that that sadness and loneliness or fear represents “reality” and that once we give into it that is what our life will be like. The truth is, when you open up to your negative emotions, they will come and they will go.”
― 7Cups, 7 Cups for the Searching Soul

“If ... we hear ourselves speaking words that convey attunement to the process unfolding in this moment--a felt sense of receiving, cultivating, believing, supporting and trusting--we are more apt to be attending from the right with support from the left.

This way of experiencing may also be coupled with attention to felt sense, comfort with being rather than pressure to do, and a respect for the undulating rise and fall of healing that unfolds naturally in the space between.

When we are in this mode, we have a tendency to speak more tentatively and to check in with our relational partner about how he or she is receiving what we are offering.

This past part is particularly important because it reflects our growing felt-sense awareness that the system of the person we are helping knows more about what needs to happen next than we do.

In addition to the humility and respect this engenders, we may also notice that instead of wanting to get rid of some state, we are more apt to acknowledge its meaningfulness and be present to it just as it is.

Listening in this way, the so-called negative state may reveal itself as telling an important truth and become an opening toward healing.

We may also be aware of the limitation and incompleteness of words, leading us to honor silence as well.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“Don't fight against negative emotions-It’s exhausting. Try to embrace them instead.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“Don’t fight against negative emotions. It’s exhausting.
Try to embrace them instead.”
― Anoir Ou-chad

“Negative emotions are messengers
delivering urgent news
from faraway lands
you lost contact to

Don’t shoot the messengers
they are gardeners
bringing tears to water
the seeds of a new you”
― Valentina Quarta, The Purpose Ladder

“Turn your envy into motivation to pour into your passions. Use anger as fuel to speak up against injustice. Sadness as an opportunity to give yourself more love.”
― Ash Alves

“The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.”
― Connie Kerbs, Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love

“Fear and anger, the two emotions that most people came to him to reduce—emotions that he’d worked so hard to overcome in his own life—were fuel for politicians. Maybe candidates and congressmen thought that sowing discord among countrymen, even family members, was an unfortunate type of collateral damage. Maybe they didn’t think about it at all.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself

“It’s not the hurt that others cause to us that counts, but our response to it that matters; if a positive outlook helps us gloss over the mishaps of life, the negative feelings harm our psyche to hurt our lives.”
― B.S. Murthy, Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel

“Challenges have the power to redirect students' reasons for learning and aspiring to reach their potential. Initially, challenges may create negative emotions and pain, but over time, these can transform into sources of anticipated pleasure and motivation for improvement.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“Adversities, experiences, and challenges function similarly to motivation by fueling actions, abilities, and achievements.”
― Asuni LadyZeal