Louise Hay Quotes

Pessimism is my default setting.

I think, life is miserable.

Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

The minute you start getting down about how your life is panned out - I'm not a religious person, but how God made ya - the minute you get down about that, it's gonna eat at you and eat at you.

I'm sort of a negative guy.

Just from my own experience, a lot of the comedians I used to work with were miserable in their actual lives. I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.