1. “Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than to be surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.”
2. “It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
3. “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.”
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4. “Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.”
5. “Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.”
6. “As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.”
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7. “If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won.”
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8. “Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.”
9. “Handling toxic people is not an art, they will be the victim of their own toxicity.”
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10. “Don’t let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world – love!”
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11. “May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you.”
12. “When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it.”
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13. “Toxic people like you more when you don’t challenge them. They prefer to have an upper hand over you.”
14. “It’s amazing how quickly things can turn around when you remove toxic people from your life.”
15. “When dealing with toxic people, always choose distance over disrespect.”
16. “Stack all the rocks you want, but if you don’t let go of the toxic people and behaviors in your life, nothing will change.”
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17. “The minute she rid herself from toxic people, she started glowing like a beautiful sunset in Barbados.”
18. “Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.”
19. “Toxic people create chaos, point fingers, shift blame and avoid taking responsibility.”
20. “The only thing more exhausting than being with a toxic person is pretending they’re not toxic.”
21. “A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they’ve trusted take responsibility, and that is what’s toxic.”
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22. “Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.”
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23. “When I stop eating certain things, I feel so much better. I notice the same when I stop dealing with certain people.”
24. “Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.”
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25. “The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth, but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it.”
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26. “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!”
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27. “Keeping bad company is like being in a germ-infested area. You never know what you’ll catch.”
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28. “It’s very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them.”
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29. “Hanging around the small-minded eventually makes us small-minded. The plant only grows as big as the environment it’s in.”
30. “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much, there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.”
31. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.”
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32. “If you attach to the negative behavior of others it brings you down to their level.”
33. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”
34. “You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.”
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35. “People who try to bring you down every day aren’t important in your life, so you better treat their opinions as such.”
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36. “It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of ‘Me’, which is basically a tyranny of others.”
37. “What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”
38. “Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
39. “If somebody is looking for a bin to throw all their trash into, make sure it’s not in your mind.”
40. “The hardest part of being in an emotionally abusive relationship, it’s actually admitting you’re in one.”
41. “Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.”
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42. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
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43. “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.”
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44. “Weeding out the harmful influences should become the norm not the exception.”
45. “Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
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46. “Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought it would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.”
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47. “There are people who break you down by just being them. They need not do anything. Dissociate.”
48. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.”
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49. “Your life is too valuable to waste on people who don’t appreciate you.”
50. “Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.”
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51. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
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52. “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.”
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53. “The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.”
54. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”
55. “Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.”
56. “A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams or your dignity.”
57. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
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