Quotes About Toxicity

Know your worth and please don't invest in toxic people or relationships, because any bond that requires servicing is not worth your time.

As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy - and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker. Contempt is often directed at people who have been excluded from a group or declared unworthy of its benefits. Contempt is often used by governments to provide rhetorical cover for torture or abuse. Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples. People who speak with contempt for one another will probably not remain united for long. The

Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.

When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health.

How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin.

Trump's word piles fill public space with static, the way pollutants in an industrial city can saturate the air, making it toxic and creating a state of constant haze. The haze can be so dense that objects become visible only up close, but never in their entirety and never really in focus.

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Purge everyone who "brings you down," and you risk being very lonely or, what is worse, cut off from reality.

Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted

Le mélange du vrai et du faux est énormément plus toxique que le faux pur. PAUL VALÉRY

You know what I always say—never let an asshole rent space in your head." He

I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

Recognize the vampires in your life and slay them. Your happiness counts on it.

When you become an adult and you have a choice of who to have in your life, if someone's hurting you and making you feel bad, then they shouldn't be in your life, even if it's a family member.

To allow the situation to get caught up in "They misled me" or "I was lied to" or "They did the wrong thing and I'm doing the right thing" had the effect of turning it toxic.

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.

There is a lot of toxic masculinity around.

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

League of Legends' players are so toxic. I can't imagine being on a team in the NBA where they were as toxic as they are in 'League of Legends.'

We want Patreon to be safe, and we have no tolerance for hate speech. That's something I think other platforms have been behind on. They've been allowing their platforms to become toxic places. We don't want that. I don't feel apologetic about that at all.

I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

Social media has been such a big platform for my success. But it can also be a toxic place.