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The Negative

«Delete the negative;Accentuate the positive!»
«It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.»
«Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power»
«Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being ... The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.»
«He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.»
«Everybody should try to free himself from the negative qualities like hatred, jealousy and wickedness. »
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: The Negative
«HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.»
«Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Defense | Keywords: The Negative, weaker
«Individual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it.»
«I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.»

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