What is different between positive and negative?

Question

abraham lincoln once said: "it has been my observaton that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be "will you make up your mind to be happy?i not, will you make up your mind not to be unhappy?

Answer 1

Shri Dattopant Thengri used to mention a formula that

real happiness= happiness / our ego

as per this formula if ego is controlled to a minimal level, we can enjoy each and everything in this world.

Swami Vivekananda says that a person learns more in the crisis and difficult time than in easy and comfortable circumstance. And a person's capability is his knowledge and wisdom with which he/she can easily come out from the tough and difficult phase of his life.

Positive and negative is two opposite side of coin.

any level difference in this physical world results into positive and negative and nature tries to balance the same.

take an example, 5 is positive with respect to 4 but negative with respect to 6.

As a human being, our consciousness is the viewer of both positive and negative therefore is beyond both and hence is the master.

In our pure consciousness stage, we spend our day to day life without being affected by positive or negative, happiness or unhappiness. We enjoy everything.

Answer 2

well negative is allowing something anything to defeat you while positive is embracing the same thing and not allowing it to defeat you.

ex. when a boy was making fun of a child with hearing impairments because the FM system she was wearing had antennas and had several kids calling her martian; the girl replied "laugh at me if you want to but because i wear them i can hear you laugh."

that is positive!

Answer 3

I will put this in as simplistic form as I can-Perhaps how a neanderthal might put it

Positive makes us run fast and rest easy.It makes us think correctly.

Negative is what makes us second guess.Our progress is slow.

If we see everything in a negative way, we will tell ourselves that positive doesn't exist, and even if it exists, it is lost, and we won't find it.

Answer 4

Let me go straight to the point

see a coin, it has two sides,  one positive and one negative in the same coin,  black and white, good and bad, ugly and pretty,  it means that everything in life has two sides, inseparately,  you have front and back, head and feets, day and night, and so on

positive is the same as negative,  but at the other side

Turn around and you have the other side of the same body

Answer 5

Not everyone wants to  'make up their minds to be happy'. Not that they do not want happiness; they do! You can feel that they are 'chasing' after happiness. The funniest part is they allow happiness to elude them. These people also feel that they 'do not deserve' to be happy.

It's all part of their mental state of their mind.

But in everyone of us, we can all experience happiness. We only have to be content about the little blessings that we receive each day and we can be happy. That's what being positive is all about.

Being negative is just the opposite - complaining, whining, lamenting about each and every obstacle that one faces.

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Answer 6

In philosophy, you will not appreciate my protons and electrons science answers, so- I will stay within the confines of perception of the world.

There are so many men and women who join the chorus of the "positive thinking creates positive environments resulting in spiritual uplifting" BS. Realists need not apply.  These are the ways of the current world.  If you so much as point out any negative, someone will only be too happy to kick you off the happy positive thinking only bandwagon.

Personally , I will prefer the company of the realists than the shipful of fools but hey, I am a speck in this earth.  The negative forces will become the rock and barnacles that we build civilizations on.

Opposites attract. To have one, you must have the other. These are the forces of the universe,opposite energy.

Answer 7

It's a question of outlook. If a glass half filled with water and a positive person looks at it they'll tell it's half full, but a negative person tells you it's half empty.

A study was done a couple of years ago. It separated participants into 2 cohorts - positive and negative. The researchers then videotaped the participants going about their normal lives. They also planted a $10 note in the path of every participant. The positive ones saw it and took it, the negative ones missed it every time.

So the difference between positive and negative people is that positive people are successful.

Answer 8

Negative thinking defines pessimists....When we allow ourselves to think negatively we damage our potential in many ways. The worst thing is that we are so wrapped in negativity that we cannot even see that there are ways out.

Positive thinking creates optimists....Positive thoughts can only shape your reality for better. Besides, they make you feel good in the now

Answer 9

positive is learning to get energy from the inside rather than from the outside. if you are trying to support yourself from the outside it becomes negative, it is depending on outside sources for your mental strength. outside sources is always wavering and cause you to crash soon or later. to become positive we have to make up our mind to do it. this is what abraham lincoln  meant.

Answer 10

Broken Voice has a good answer. In order to understand what those two extremes are, you must understand the middle ground between them-Neutral, or Reality. Being positive and creative, or being negative and destructive, is a choice of straying from the middle path where they both exist and don't exist.

Answer 11

For me, "positive" is the idea that you will have a favorable outcome when taking on endeavors, and "negative" is basically imagining all the unfavorable outcomes for no reason.  I think that if you're alive and kickin', you're probably doing pretty good regardless if you're poor or not.  It's those phony desires that really give us a lot of grief when there's like this massive amount of potential happiness and positive experiences practically sitting on our heads.  But we're looking over there for some reason.  Perspective is interesting.

Answer 12

Positive thoughts are considered to promote happiness and well being, and negative thoughts the reverse. So can we think ourselves happy ?

Can a depressed person think their way out of depression ?

" Its easy to think we are at the mercy of our feeling, but in fact we are not " says James Tighe.

So if this is the case why don't we all think ourselves happy, by thinking positive thoughts ?

You see it is impossible to consider your question without referring to happiness as Lincoln did and this leads on to the pursuit of happiness, enshrined in the American constitution.

We all desire happiness and positive though is a process which empowers us to achieve it, but we often need some help to get into a positive attitude.

Negative thoughts are destructive and erode our confidence and well being.

Answer 13

The basic difference between the POSITIVE  and NEGATIVE is just they are opposite to each other with equal measure in text meaning in application BUT in real action it is generally the positive is felt poorly while the negative is felt heavily!

People do not appreciate the good they receive by others positive thinking and action for their benefits while they strongly feel the bad of their negative thinking and action on them!

Negative is for regress

Positive is always for progress!

Negative is ugly

Positive is fine!

Negative, nobody likes

Positive, everybody desire and like too!

Negative is death fine!

Positive is life!

To be precise, all the positive thinking and contributions of all those lived only makes all of us to breathe and live today, leaving the great responsibility to all of us to be more positive and truthful and honest in making the world more peaceful and safe for the future of humanity!

As regards to the happiness, just come as we make up our mind to keep ourselves happy is a wrong notion. We can't be happy by just thinking on that BUT we need to be in a happiness to keep the mind COOL and to reflect the happiness and SO IT CAN BE DEFINED  that the measure of happiness is the level to which your mind is cool and happy!

Answer 14

Abraham Lincoln was a wise man and I believe we have our days of being positive and negative.  I made up my mind to be positive, though as humans we have our negative days and it is normal.  When I get pissed off I go off alone and take a time out.

Answer 15

I agree with him that you are as happy as you want to be - maybe you dont even have t think about it in terms of + or - juts quantity or metaphor of quality - "like I want to always be as happy as I am in this moment !" or "I want to  be happy in a peaceful not giddy way"

My first thought was that in electricity its just all charge and the poles can change but the charge of electricity stays the same so no difference except labelling makes it so.

Answer 16

To put it simply, there are three main areas of 'positive' and 'negative' aspects--numbers in mathematics, energies in physics and attitudes in human affairs.

Since your question mentions about Lincoln's observation of happiness in people, i can only deal with the positive and negative aspects of human beings.

Positive-minded persons tend to treat Life and  problems with greater patience, will-power, faith, passion, decisiveness, hope and understanding. Those who are negative are the opposite--they are pessimistic, less hopeful   and easily give up in whatever they perceive or pursue.

One thing i know and experienced--being positive is so much better and a great advantage than being negative, if one desires to succeed in his chosen  areas of life. The positive person has long-term goals, good focus and a clear vision. He is diligent and keenly interested in driving himself and others to achieve his goals. His positive attitude and actions tend to draw people, friends or colleagues, towards him.  The negative one easily gives up when he meets obstacles and lacks the energy, will or knowledge to overcome them. He even wears a sad look, in poor health  and easily falls into depression.

It is essential that everyone in a position of leadership, from the manager of a small firm, to the President or Prime Minister, must be a highly positive-minded individual for survival and success of the Organisation. And at the lower levels, even if  the common citizen may be unfortunate to experience bad health, poor financial circumstances or loss of family members and homes through a natural disaster, he MUST still pick up the pieces, persevere and seek for moral or financial support to get on with his life.

Life is, indeed,  a constant battle of ups and downs, of sadness and joy, in every family and community.  So to strive and overcome difficulties is a way of life esp in this age of limited resources and complexities of living.  The challenges  and successes will bring lots of contentment and happiness to the individual, his family  and he would be certainly proud to say that he has proven his worth and 'lived Life to the fullest'.

Answer 17

I was wonding the same till find out they are the same.

Like when you are at the doctors office in they take your blood test and they say it nevgative that mean you blood is good or if they say it positive that means that your blood test was bad. But at poblice when your with your friends and stuff

negative can be bad and positive can be good. But i'm still alittle confused about that alittle bit though. But i gave you wat I have anyways.

Answer 18

if you are talking about polarity in and of itself, they are relative terms.  for example, with respect to electricity the terms just refer to poles, but the pos / neg designation is arbitrary; that is, we just adopt a standard and follow it.  what we call neg could have been called pos.

but if you are talking about the human aspects of the terms, positive feels good, negative does not.  for example kindness is pos b/c it feels good, whereas its opposite is neg b/c it feels the opposite.

and if you are talking about an even more universal application, check out the connotations associated with yin and yang.

Answer 19

In my view, and in the view of many who are wiser than I'll ever be in this life, there is a way people think of happiness and unhappiness which will profoundly affect their lives..  Some will focus on that which is good in the world and others will focus on those aspects of life which are not what one might desire in which ever idea each person has of what would make the perfect world.  The idea is the person's mindset attracts more of what that person thinks of most.  So, if I were to say I am doomed.  Nothing good is ever going to happen to me, I would carry that around like a garment I am wearing and people would perceive that negative attitude even if they didn't actively think of it.  On the other hand, if I have the attitude everything good is a possibility and I am more likely to see good things and see when some event could lead to a good outcome, people would also respond to that behaviour.  I also believe there are forces in the universe which are attracted to people as a magnet attracts iron filings and those forces which people attract help facilitate events in people's lives.

Answer 20

A simple universal law is that "like attracts like." So if you are a positve, happy, upbeat person, that shapes the world around you to become more like yourself; therefore, positive things will happen to you to make you even happier. On the other hand, a negative person sees the world around them in a negative way. Anything that happens to them, they'll find the downsides to it. So that way, they'll feel that bad things happen to them and be even more negative.

So yeah, whether or not we do it deliberately, we basically do make the decision to be either happy or unhappy.

Answer 21

Positive/negative, happy/sad, good/evil.  All of these emotions are quite by choice if you think about it.  I think Lincoln was correct.  I also believe that you can't have one without the other.  You have to have one with the other otherwise you wouldn't know the difference so your question would be moot.  I also feel that sometimes being in a negative mood can be beneficial because it can cause to ponder some serious thoughts thus resulting in positive internal dialogue.

Answer 22

A positive mindset is truly a conscious choice. Negative mindsets bring negative results because to an extent we create our own destinies.  But there are things that you can do to offset this. For example, if you have post it notes on the bathroom mirror with inspirational messages like: " It's Hard To Be Hateful When You're Grateful!" or "Someone Else Always Has It Worse" try this for a week, be openminded and try to remember the glass is half full, and try to avoid negative self talk.

Answer 23

The difference between the two is will.  The best illustration is the old idea that two people can look at a bottle and one sees it as half-full and the other sees it as half-empty.  They are both correct.

Lincoln had it right.  A person's happiness comes from within himself.  People often believe that material goods and riches will make them happier, but that's not always the case.

I've seen people in African villages living in mud huts, without clean water or enough food and yet, you can observe many of them laughing and clowning around.  

We've all seen people who have suffered terrible deformities or been disfigured in accidents who are happy people and some film stars who seem to have everything sometimes take their own lives.

Wealth and privilege do not automatically guarantee happiness, but it doesn't hurt it either.

Answer 24

To me the words positive and negative are interesting to me.

Being positive according to your  quote is that positive is a happy uplifting feeling as apposed to negative- which would be a negative attitude which is thinking on the bad and sad end of things.

While in medicine the word negative is good and positive is bad.

When a tumor is tested the doctor would say that the test is positive. Which means that there IS a tumor. And after a surgery the doctor would say that the tests were negative. Meaning nothing was found during the medical examination.

A positive cancer find, isn't good it is bad aka negative.

It means the person has cancer.

A negitive test result for cancer means good news there is no cancer.

Answer 25

I am not too concern with Abraham Lincoln, the great President of US in history. (Please see the answer on HISTORY in Yahoo by me)

You are more concerned with positive? & negative?

Positive wire is with live current & negative is not.

In thought, positive is right & supported. The reverse is Negy

Positive & Negative are natural enemies on opposite side.

Don't make up your mind, just be HAPPY & Happiness will make others HAPPY too.

Have I answered your Questions in all the parts .......so, what is my point?   I answered another question on Rating & Points.  Just give me the point (1-10) to show him/her to prove my point.  Thank you.

Answer 26

positive and negative are all states of mind

we may say killing is bad where the opther man says it is right

one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter

and that for some peole it is easier to get happy, wheras others have higher standards

like in them old days if u had an AC ud be happy as h**l and without one ud feel so so

nowadays u feel so so with one like complete **** wifout one

but we still complain bout our livess.............

Answer 27

i do think that happiness is a state of mind, i think lincoln got it wrong right. when i want to be happy i do everything i can to look at things with  a positive light. when i want to be unhappy because i think i deserve it or simply because i  want  to feel numb, i think negatively and make myself cry in the process. positive and negative rule our lives they determine our happiness, if we think positively all the time, we may look foolish, but we are happy and at peace with ourselves. and if we decide to be unhappy whether we know it was our decission or not, that determines our outlook on things, we suddenly remember every bad things in our life instead all the memorable moments.

Answer 28

Positive And negative are 2 brothers . They are not both the same at a given moment. Each have the opposite value ( quantity)and direction.They interchange though, but each would give the other its value (and quantity). What was considered  yesterday as negative its today positive getting the value of yesterdays positive.

Answer 29

Positive is like milk, and negative is like poisonous toxic acid. When  negative is added to negative,  there is a negative, when  negative is added to positive there is a negative, when positive is added to a negative there is a negative, when positive is added to positive there is a positive.

acid+acid=acid

acid+milk=poison

milk+acid=poison

milk+milk=milk This is a law of nature, however,  if a man observes this law, and applies it to the healing properties of nature, half the negatives are himself, and half are nature, and  all the milk is provided by nature.

That which a person does  comes in two categories only.  These are.  The things one  wants to do, and the things one is forced to do. The first is totally responsible, and half posotive, the second is  totally irresponsible,  (no responsibility), and is half negative.

If you want to learn to tree this idea farther, then you must  categorize the possible questions,  there are nion of these...

Answer 30

Looked at the answers and most people seem to be positive.... are they happy? I am not so sure that a mere mind make-up can ensure happiness or misery irrespective of the external circumstances and influences...... first of all, do we ever know why sometimes our mood is positive and some other times so negative without any apparent reason? If we do not know that, is it not mere fantasy to presume as if we can have total control over the make-up of our mind?