Quotes About Negative Life Experiences

#1. Remembering our personal growth that resulted from negative life experiences makes new obstacles easier to embrace.

Sam Owen

#2. Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

Leon Brown

#3. Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

Henry Sidgwick

#4. His eyes held a subtle light that she could not mistake for anything other than true attraction. The kind that mere friends did not share. She hated it. She loved it. She hated that she loved it.

Ted Dekker

#5. I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences.

John Paul Warren

#6. You don't want to be anywhere near one of our battles. I don't even want to be near our battles. Unfortunately, the evil idiots usually don't give me a choice. -

James Patterson

#7. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. In her dreams, she flies.

Patrick Ness

#9. My silence was not a lack of passion, but an inability to even draw a breath.

Lauren Gallagher

#10. Most of us are unaware of the words we use on a regular basis. We weren't taught that the words we regularly use to describe our experiences and conditions in life impact and influence our emotional states.

Maddy Malhotra

#11. Unknowingly we make our emotional states worse by using and relating high-intensity negative words to our experiences in life. You can use empowering/positive words to change how you think, which will then change your feelings, decisions and results.

Maddy Malhotra

#12. Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well

Oliver Sacks

#13. Literature is a sacred knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of
attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#15. In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances, risks, and opportunities.

Julie K. Norem

#16. God can turn any negative of life into a positive. If life takes us into the minus of negative experiences, heaven sends down a vertical line to intersect it and make all things positive. Let

S. Michael Wilcox

#17. But here I was,quasi-boyfriend saying he wanted to take me on an actual date, and I was just staring at him impassively, like a horse watching a mime pretending to walk against the wind.

Maureen Johnson

#18. Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

David Whyte

#19. If you can pinpoint the moments in social media that are really negative experiences, those are the ones you can cut out. And when you do, you recognize how much better your life is.

Kim Stolz

#20. Two student wizards were arguing vehemently, or at least repeatedly stating their point of view in a loud voice, which suffices for argument most of the time.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Michel De Montaigne

#22. Sadness and love and pain, they're easy to feel- but not luck.

S.D. Crockett

#23. Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

Kierston Wareing

#24. Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life's turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

Amanda Ripley

#25. Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise.

Thomas Brooks

#26. The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!

Maddy Malhotra

#27. There are portraits and still-lifes
And the first, because 'human'
Does not excel the second

Charles Tomlinson