People who say they’re 'brutally honest' are more interested in the brutality than the honesty. A person can be honest without being brutal. Sometimes honesty can hurt like hell, but we don't need to twist the knife while we're at it.
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Quotes tagged ‘Toxic People’
I'm like walking heroin, very habit forming. It never ends well.
There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
Everyone comes into your life for a reason. Sometimes the reason is to teach you that you have appallingly bad taste on who you let into your life.
Don't normalize toxicity.
Stop reconnecting with toxic people from your past because you’re lonely. Focus on getting better and attracting better.
Alex, this guy is like raw plutonium radiating poison into my skin and breaking me down with his toxic lack of self-awareness.
Negative creates negative, people who mock others usually create negative stigma for themselves which triggers unpleasant decision making & they don't realize they hurt themselves. It's counter productive.
Psychopaths are nature’s only known intraspecies predators. Other creatures will kill their own under certain conditions. However, none wantonly prey on their own. Psychopaths represent the exception. And it’s their malignant narcissism that permits such conduct.
Remember: toxic people don’t argue with you, they essentially argue with themselves and you become privy to their long, draining monologues. They thrive off the drama and they live for it.
The most difficult person in your life is actually an insecure, love starved person.
It's really true. Negative people want your attention because they thrive off of your energy. Don't give them what they want. Let them starve.
Instead of looking inward and in the mirror, toxic people project outward to blame others who are not the cause. Don’t take on other people’s self-deceptions and projections.
Some people are like clouds when they disappear, the sun can shine in our lives.
Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.
Save your energy: don’t entertain toxic people.
Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
I’ve detached myself from everyone who tries to tell me what to do.
I forgive those who have harmed me in my past and peacefully detach from them.