“When you negate the negative that someone thinks or feels with the positive, you are denying them the authentic support they need to deal with what they are facing.”

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“The various positivities produced ... by the logic of political hope depend on the mathematical illusion that negated negations might somehow escape, and not redouble, such negativity.”

Lee Edelman (1953) American academic

“We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“We invalidate and desensitize our children when we try to make them feel better instead of helping them to feel like it is valid and ok to feel exactly how they feel. We do an immense disservice when we teach them by doing this to resist their own negative emotions. Anything we resist persists, and so we trap our children in their negative emotions when we try to help them avoid negative emotion by showing them how to run in the direction of positive emotion. We need to validate (mirror) their feelings and allow them to befriend the way they feel entirely before any action is taken to improve a situation or the way they feel.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Use the negative to get into the positive, don't wait for the positive to get you out of the negative.”

- Goa

“When I date someone, I think long term. What's the point of dating someone if you only want them temporarily?”

Ralph Smart

“It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.”

Salma Hayek (1966) Mexican-American actress and producer

“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author