We all strive to amend our relationships. After all, these relationships give us moments to cherish and enjoy. However, many of these connections might be toxic and become the reason for utmost stress and bad memories in life. People you spend time with effect you knowingly or unknowingly. Somewhere we adopt a mix of personas from different people. It’s human nature. So, it is of utmost importance to allow only progressive people to live productive lives. Toxic people poison others’ lives, gradually spoil you and you rarely realize or know it late.
Unfortunately, toxic people around us harm us being our friends. Such people will always make you doubt yourself and your ability and deteriorate your overall health. It is utterly necessary to make a distance from such people. If you allow such people, they will undoubtedly leave a negative and dark impact making your life worse every moment. But the first question that arises from reading this is how to deal with such people once you realize they are not suitable for your good!
Your sixth sense always suggests you when you don’t get a good vibe from certain people, but unfortunately, most of the time, we ignore it. Toxic people’s presence will naturally upset you, let alone their other activities. There will be undefinable turbulence inside you. When you are with them, you will find your mind not working as well it usually does. Don’t doubt yourself and overthink that you are judging anyone. Let us try to understand some of the behavior of corrosive people that indicates you to show a red signal.
Manipulative– Toxic people pretend that they want your benefit, but their action indicates otherwise. That is, they try to manipulate you by their words. It is best to make decisions based on their actions, being deaf to their words.
Troubles and Negativity- It includes people who fill your major part of life with problems and negativities. Sometimes they are so frustrated with their lives that they want others to live a compromised life.
Criticism- Though constructive criticism is good, destructive people constantly criticize you and leave no chance to put you down.
Over self-obsessed– People who constantly use you in need but seldom stand by you when you need them. Most of the time, they keep the things about them and don’t bother to ask if you are all right. Being a little selfish is good but using others while not helping others is another level of selfishness.
Moody- We meet many people who have emotional swings. They try to pour all their anger on us. And on the other hand, they want us to enjoy when they are in a good mood and crack jokes without bothering about our situation.
Arrogance: Superiority complex shows up in their behavior. Toxic people think others are intelligent if they know what they know; otherwise, they are fools. Making fun of others’ inability to neglect their abilities is one of the proofs of their arrogance.
Dominating: Such people always try to impose themselves on you. They would expect you to go their way, and if you go otherwise, they try to make you realize that you cannot make independent decisions. These sort of people will never care about your personal view.
Interfering: It is one of the most destructive qualities of toxic people. They intrude a lot into your matters and are always up for free advice though they don’t belong to your field and path. It becomes more complicated when elders from your blood relations do it. You have to struggle to stop them.
Disrespect: Toxic people will never think twice before disrespecting you. Then later, they might try to persuade you by making illogical reasons.
Demotivating– Toxic people are always up for demotivating you, let alone motivating. They are always making you count your mistakes and suppressing your achievements.
Comparison: Toxic people always keep comparing themselves with others, not lifting themselves but pulling others down. They also weigh their friends and people against others, disrespecting their individuality. That is why you find such people trying to change their mates as per their needs. How can someone be your friend if they don’t like the way you are!
Judgemental– Toxic people always judge others and their people, giving them negative feedback. They will never even try to understand what you do and why! So, even a healthy relationship[ turns toxic if judging replaces understanding.
Unsupportive– Corrosive people will never support their friends in bad times. However, they will come to you running shamelessly to praise you when you succeed as if they were always your friends indeed.
All these qualities of toxic people don’t harm you physically but mentally and emotionally. It fetches away your energy and time in the name of your friend and well-wisher. However, it is best to understand that all people do not harm you intentionally. They might not know that their activities are affecting you the wrong way. So, it’s better to talk to them straight and try to sort it out. There should be no fear and communication gap from at least your side so that you could make a firm decision.
Moreover, we all want others to say good about us. That doesn’t mean any person who tells you otherwise is toxic. Often we come across a situation where two persons say the same thing to us but the way we perceive both is different. That is because the way a message is conveyed matters. Here, our inner intuition helps us smell the intention of the sayers. However, most people are toxic by nature, and they are rigid to amend their behavior anyway. Here you better not try to improve them and maintain a safe distance. Toxic people’s words, thoughts, and behavior trouble you every time. Try to avoid them and never take their words seriously not to worsen your day.
Of course, it is next to impossible to physically avoid toxic people’s presence. But you can disappear them in your mind, and that is the way to be away while living among them. As you gain the sense of control, their words, presence, and activities will stress you less or might be no more. You have to give your hours and space to constructive people and habits to do so. One of those habits is reading good stuff. Now, having said that, I want to share some toxic people quotes.
41 Toxic People Quotes To Detoxify And Save Yourself
- “Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.” –Robert Tew
- “Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.” –Christian Baloga
- “Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” –Albert Einstein
- “Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.” –Israelmore Ayivor
- “You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.” –Joel Osteen
- “An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.” –Goi Nasu
- “It’s amazing how quickly things can turn around when you remove toxic people from your life.” –Robert Tew
- “Let go of negative people. They only show up to share complaints, problems, disastrous stories, fear, and judgment on others. If somebody is looking for a bin to throw all their trash into, make sure it’s not in your mind.” –Dalai Lama
- “Don’t let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world… LOVE!” –Yvonne Pierre
- “May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you.” –Lalah Delia
- “I have found the best way to deal with a toxic person is to not respond in any other way than monotone voice and a businesslike manner.” –Jen Grice
- “As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.” –John Mark Green
- “Dear Self: Stop re-opening your doors for toxic people, then calling it ‘seeking closure.’ Certain things don’t work out in life . . . and that’s ok.” –Reyna Biddy
- “Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.” –Steve Maraboli
- “You better go alone, than with negative people!” –Israelmore Ayivor
- “The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.” –Robert E. Baine, Jr.
- “The best defence is to keep off the radar of negative people.” –Steven Redhead
- “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.” –Denisse Lisseth
- “Life is short. Don’t waste it with negative people who don’t appreciate you. Keep them in your heart but keep them out of your life.” –Unknown
- “Toxic people spread their toxin to you and then you, in turn, become a wasteland like they are.” –Body Focus
- “Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.” –Hussein Nishah
- “People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.” –Hans F. Hasen
- “Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.” –Mandy Hale
- “I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet.” –Mahatma Gandhi
- “While you can’t control someone’s negative behavior, you can control how long you participate in it.” –Unknown
- “When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it.” –Shahida Arabi
- “Handling toxic people is not an art, they will be the victim of their own toxicity” –P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
- “Stay away from negative people. They drain your energy like vampires suck out human’s blood. Hell. They’re the real ‘dementors’.” –Riza Prasetyaningsih
- “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” –Karen E. Quinones Miller
- “Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.” –John Mark Green
- “Weeding out the harmful influences should become the norm not the exception.” –Carlos Wallace
- “When people pressure you to engage in negative decisions and actions, look at them boldly in the eyes and dare them to do good.” –Edmond Mbiaka
- “People who try to bring you down everyday aren’t important in your life, so you better treat their opinions as such.” –Terry Mark
- “If a person finds negative people in his life, then he needs to mend his own nature than that of others, for his own basic grounding decides the level of acidic or toxicity surrounding him.” –Anuj Somany
- “If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.” –Dr. Steve Maraboli
- “You cannot change the people around you, but you can change the people you choose to be around.” –Unknown
- “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” –Dr. Steve Maraboli
- “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
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