99 Toxic Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks

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Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons. Travis Bradberry

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. Travis Bradberry

Time People Worth Stress Will Important Energy Different Kinds Strife Worst Complexity Unnecessary Kinds Take Never Toxic Learn Deal How Truly Lot Different Create Your Each

My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives. Robin S. Sharma

Life You Genius Simplicity Fly Remove Build Encouragement Energy Complexity Out Vampires Delete Clean Toxic Because Around Cherish Where Anything Your Team Lives

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. Moby

Life Me You People Behavior Addiction State Okay Destroys Would About Feel Obsessive Most Toxic Altered Because Normal Normal Life Aspects Your Choose Moment Fascinates Brief Brief Moment Consciousness

If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.' Robert Downey, Jr.

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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. Karen Salmansohn

Work Love You Respect Yourself Important Complain Stay Wounds About More Merely Toxic Heal Limiting Doing Expand Person Far Your Show Beliefs Inner Need

Anything negative, I have to let go because it's too toxic for me. Kendra Wilkinson

Me Negative Too Toxic Because Go Anything Let Go

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves. Martha Beck

Love Age People Job Free Backward About More Most Toxic Becoming Selves Essential Situations Energetic Themselves Lively Thing Watching

Our immigration system is fundamentally broken, and ICE's role in supporting the existing system - including separating families seeking refuge in the United States and conducting indiscriminate deportation raids in our communities - is creating an atmosphere of toxic fear and mistrust in immigrant communities. Ayanna Pressley

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Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. Cory Booker

Spiritual State Give Toxic Cynicism

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson

You Few Think Bad Toxic Without Metaphor Metaphors Few Things Things

Social media - It's not real life. I only caught the tail end of it in high school. It can be good, and it can be fun, but you can't let it get toxic. Natalia Dyer

Life Good You School Social Media Real Life High High School Only Tail Toxic Caught Real End Get Social Fun Media

My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic. Nicolas Cage

In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you're being taught precisely how not to run an organization. Ryan Holiday

You Organization Valuable Job Every Run Toxic Learned How Nasty Precisely Taught Being Workplace Lessons Even Position

This is very unprofessional, but at 'The Toxic Avenger,' Demond Green, Matt Saldivar and I had a contest to see who could say the word 'ochre' the most times during the show. Well, I had a song called 'Choose Me Oprah,' so I just said ochre instead of Oprah the whole time. Sara Chase

Time Me Song Word Say See Could Had Instead Most Toxic Well Contest Said Oprah Matt Very Times Green Just Show Choose Who Whole

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat? Yehuda Berg

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Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix. Yuval Noah Harari

You Ignorance Dangerous Power Too Combine Toxic Mix Then

Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread. Alex Pareene

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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones. Alex Shoumatoff

Broken Soil Down Way Nitrogen Bacteria Some Per Cotton Pounds Highly Toxic Dead Chemical Fertilizer Get Lakes Acre Creating Requiring Usual Washed Growing Zone

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon. Alex Steffen

Life War Health Water Prosperity Diversity Depend Respecting Atmospheric Ecological Shared Supplies New Ecosystems Toxic Chemical Real Limits Still Just While Depth Including Multitude Carbon Gas Need

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them. Amanda Harlech

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When you meet a lot of people and you date somebody, or you're just in a relationship with friends, lovers, business, or whatever it may be, there are people that are just toxic to you, and you don't even know it yourself. Amber Liu

Relationship You Business Yourself People Somebody Whatever Meet Date Know Toxic Lot Friends May Just Lovers Even

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. Andrew Weil

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The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic. Asa Hutchinson

Become Phrase Toxic Private Itself Option Politically

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