Quotes About Negative Relationships

#1. Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

Keith Haring

#2. Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

Adam Grant

#3. I stay away from negative relationships. They are energy-sapping vampires. I can't handle them.

Preity Zinta

#4. Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don't have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. ... all decisions and actions that will affect your relationship must be made by answering this single question: Will the action I am considering have a negative impact on my relationship? If the answer is yes, don't do it.

Chris Prentiss

#7. When you get to be my age, you gain a heightened awareness of time . . . how limited it is, and you tend to move toward social interactions that are meaningful and away from negative, trivial people who are downright toxic.

Sarah Jo Smith

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

Sam Owen

#9. Well, they say a good cry does you a lot of good.

Eugene O'Neill

#10. Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.

Susane Colasanti

#11. When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously.

Sam Owen

#12. You may have also experienced the damaged relationships, job loss, poor school performance, substance use, and other negative outcomes that can result from having bipolar disorder. Perhaps

Ruth C. White

#13. You can't prepare for a positive relationship while your in a negative one.

Lenon Honor

#14. Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

Marilyn Suttle

#15. The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships.

Brian Tracy

#16. Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

Pam Grier

#17. The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

Herschel Walker

#18. Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex.

Charlee Jacob

#19. It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

Jennifer Beals

#20. When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hours ... you doubt yourself. And your friends make the difference. They become a safety net that come in and say, 'That's not the case.' And the relationships that you've built ... come to the fore.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#21. Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

Clint Eastwood

#22. Social networking can also have a negative effect on relationships when you only treat people as potential sales. The responsibility to build a relationship lies with you and depends on how you choose to use social media.

Brian Basilico

#23. Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.

Sam Owen

#24. Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.

Keshia Chante

#25. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

Sally Hogshead

#26. Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Brian L. Weiss

#27. high levels of time spent engaging in media can have a negative impact on romantic relationships, specifically on levels of relational aggression.

Douglas A. Gentile

#28. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

Oliver Burkeman

#29. When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

Darren Johnson

#30. In many situations, the only thing you can control is your own response. Changing self-talk from negative to positive is an excellent way to manage that response. Anger destroys your health and relationships.

Maddy Malhotra

#31. The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things ...

Daniel H. Pink

#32. The negative energies when sent out in the universe will reap an equivalent or more of that. It can come back as health problems, an accident, material loss or painful relationships.

Hina Hashmi

#33. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.

Stewart O'Nan