Walking Away From Toxic People Quotes & Sayings

He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy. — Cassandra Clare

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at — Saul Alinsky

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence! — Gautama Buddha

In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, no matter the time or place. — Alexis Coe

Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and a woman, which we expect at the center of a novel. Indeed, they rather shy away from permitting in their fictions the presence of any full-fledged, mature women, giving us instead monsters of virtue or bitchery, symbols of the rejection or fear of sexuality. — Leslie A. Fiedler

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that. — Lloyd Blankfein

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really. — Heather Mills

The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness. — Terryl L. Givens