Toxic People Quotes : We all have people in our lives that have profoundly harmed us. Sometimes the situation with this other person has changed. You may have forgiven them and they may even have taken ownership and expressed remorse for their harmful actions. Other times, the same harmful behavior goes on with no change or responsibility.
Toxic People Quotes
Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.
It can be tough to remain cool in the face of negativity and pressure, but if you feed the fire, that might only inflame more drama.
If you engage with them, you will get sucked into their world of negativity and toxic behavior, so it’s often better to disengage. This means not rising to the bait when they try to start an argument or get a reaction out of you or walking away when they start beef.
Take deep breaths and remove yourself from the situation.
If you give too much of yourself up to other people who drain your energy, money, and time, you will have nothing left for yourself.
You need to protect your well-being first and foremost because no one else will if you don’t. So make self-preservation your default mode, and force yourself to be around people or in places that make you uncomfortable.
This isn’t a Disney movie; if that guy morphs into a total beast when you fight, it doesn’t matter how much of a prince he is to you afterward!
You can’t change toxic people, so stop trying. It’s not your job to fix them or make them better people — that’s on them.
If you’re struggling to cope with toxic people in your life, it might be helpful for you to seek professional advice or intervention.
A therapist can provide you with support and guidance on how to deal with toxic people and help you work through any underlying issues that may be contributing to your difficulties. This is especially important if you are in a toxic relationship or married to this person!
They are a safe and judgment-free space to receive guidance as you navigate this sensitive topic.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
You lift your spirits by moving away from what upsets you. If the stove is hot, you can’t ask how to touch it but be happy about it.
Queen Tourmaline
An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
Avoid negative people, for they are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you.
The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it.
Sonya Parker
Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.
If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.
When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it.
If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.
Michael Bassey Johnson
While you can’t control someone’s negative behavior, you can control how long you participate in it.
Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.
As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships. – John Mark Green
When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it. – Shahida Arabi
We don’t get to choose our family, but we can choose our friends. With courage, we can weed out narcissistic people. We can focus on those who do appreciate us, love us, and treat us with respect.
We all have those toxic people around us that make our lives miserable… The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them…
It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.
People who try to bring you down every day aren’t important in your life, so you better treat their opinions as such.
Avoid negative people, for they are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you!
Sometimes there are things in life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes, change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we need.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.
Everybody has bad relationships, and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.
There are people who break you down by just being them. They need not do anything. Dissociate.
Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional – you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.
Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Let negative people live their negative lives with their negative minds.
There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.
Life is too short to hang around people who are causing you to compromise. Pulling you down. Your time is too valuable to waste it with people who don’t have a dream. People that aren’t going anywhere.
You don’t have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.
Fire false friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!
Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.
It’s awfully hard to be happy when you feel you’re not worthy enough for those feelings. You’ve been knocked down so many times happiness to you is an unnatural state of mind.
Lose the fake smile, get up and get rid of the toxic reasons you’re unhappy, no matter, who, or what’s standing in your way. Time to get real!
If someone thinks you’re being dramatic or selfish, then they obviously haven’t walked a mile in your shoes. It’s not important for you to explain yourself. You get a pass here. Don’t let anyone else try to saddle you with guilt or shame. If you need your space, take it.
Yes, the people around us can be insensitive, narcissistic, toxic, and sometimes even abusive, but it is up to us to take that energy on or let it flow through us. No one is responsible for taking away our happiness but us.
Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.
Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.
Let go of negative people. They only show up to share complaints, problems, disastrous stories, fear, and judgment on others. If somebody is looking for a bin to throw all their trash into, make sure it’s not in your mind.
When being in a toxic relationship in life at times you may have to step outside yourself, to see yourself, so you can find yourself and love yourself again.
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.
There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without ‘em. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.
Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Cleanliness is a habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment neat, clean, and delightful and free from dirt and toxic things.
As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.
Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.
Remember…Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.
Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.
Sometimes there are things in life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we need.
Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.”
Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.
Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked.
We teach people how to treat us.
When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.
People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the color of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!
You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.
You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
Like arsenic, toxic people will slowly kill you. They kill your positive spirit and play with your mind and emotions. The only cure is to let them go.
I have found the best way to deal with a toxic person is to not respond in any other way than monotone voice and a businesslike manner.
People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.
Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re under-appreciated.
If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead end low vibrational relationship or friendship you won.
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of Me, which is basically a tyranny of others.
Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.
Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.
Be as sincere as you want your friends to be. Don’t lie out of your nose and expect your friends to be the kind people you are not. Fake attracts fake.
Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.
Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the problem is them… they always say the problem is someone else.
Friendships are meant to be enjoyable, not tense or anxiety-provoking.
Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate.
If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions. Will Smith
If you attach to the negative behavior of others it brings you down to their level. Guru Singh
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