“Quit waiting for others to give to you; it is not going to happen.”
“Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.”
“Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.”
“Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.”
“Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.”
“You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.”
“Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.”
“Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.”
“One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.”
“Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.”
“A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.”
“Learn to catch yourself and stop yourself immediately when you are engaging in negative self-talk.”
“You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn t feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it s trying to protect you.”
“It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.”
“You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.”
“This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself.”
“For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate him or her in a skill. To train them to debate stoic, existential, theological, and humanist ways of grappling with reality is to educate them in values and morals. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. Morality is the product of a civilization, but the elites know little of these traditions. They are products of a moral void. They lack clarity about themselves and their culture. They can fathom only their own personal troubles. They do not see their own bases or the causes of their own frustrations. They are blind to the gaping inadequacies in our economic, social, and political structure and do not grasp that these structures, which they have been taught to serve, must be radically modified or even abolished to stave off disaster. They have been rendered mute and ineffectual. “What we cannot speak about” Ludwig Wittgenstein warned “we must pass over in silence.”