Negative Tendencies Quotes

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

The bad propensities of human nature are only kept within bounds when they are allowed no scope for their indulgence

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.