The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.
BARBARA FREDRICKSON
BARBARA FREDRICKSON
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Barbara Fredrickson19 quotes“The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.”
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Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that’s not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they’re also doing good-adding value to the world.
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Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson Positivity doesn’t just change the contents of your mind…It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
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Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.
Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative.
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Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
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Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson The boundaries between you and not-you – what lies beyond your skin – relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others – really see them, wholeheartedly – springs open.
Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care
Barbara FredricksonBarbara Fredrickson Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.
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Getting so deep in the process of creating the life I want for myself, so I’m turning out anything/ anyone that doesn’t align with my vision.
Dau VoireDau Voire I am finding the courage to breathe as I am.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign Sadness that is caused by the absence of love is deadly for the heart.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Always find a reason to love.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta You are healing yourself with poetry what could be more beautiful than that?
Aurora RaineAurora Raine Not everyone takes every opportunity that comes their way because it takes a lot of work.
Edgar DoucetEdgar Doucet I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
AtticusAtticus The lack of influence or power is more dangerous than worrying about things being reduced to nothingness.
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo
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The more I wanted to scream my pain out, the better listener I became. Thinking how badly others would have wanted it too.
Kanika ChughKanika Chugh I miss him whispers my mind he left you screams my heart.
Charlie GilbertCharlie Gilbert Abstruse spite bleeds from their mouth. I hear the venom, It’s screaming so loud, And yet so benign Reaction, not roused Their “nasty”, so nice The beast lost its shroud.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola I was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
Maggie BowyerMaggie Bowyer Her stressed soul had windows of crushing shards of wilting petals screaming for life.
Dr. Zainab AnsariDr. Zainab Ansari I can scream into every passing storm cloud, but that will not bring you back. I can yell at god as i sob over crinkled pictures, but all i can grasp are memories.
Maggie BowyerMaggie Bowyer I screamed and cried but only because i wanted to make this right. Instead, I sat alone, shivering watching the evening turn into night.
Maggie BowyerMaggie Bowyer When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
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