Negative Thought Patterns Quotes

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

You are creating your own hell.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Eating was my only way of controlling my life, or so I thought. When you are addicted or suffering from a mental illness, you think you're in complete control. But the opposite is true. You are, in fact, completely out of control.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.

There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.