Toxic Quotes - Page 9

• Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

  Craig Groeschel

  Bitterness, Needs, Emotion

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• Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also have less toxic residue. Science is still catching up with this. J. Agric. Food. Chem. Vol. 51, no. 5, 2003.

  Michael Pollan

  Healthy, Needs, Body

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• The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal.

  Sydney Walker

  Psychosis, Drug Use, Differences

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• The vision behind our idea is a world where people don't carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is free of toxic pollutants, and the economy diligently conserves its natural resources for consumers and future generations. We want to make it easier for consumers to create this world through their purchasing decisions and everyday activities.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Ideas, People

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• Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply means, "I'm no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul." You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

  Doreen Virtue

  Uplifting, Karma, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 28, 2011

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• Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.

  Harold Bridgwood Walker

  Music, Thinking, Worry

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• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  Taylor Swift

  Looks, Toxic Relationship, Seeing

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• Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

  Daniel Goleman

  Bystanders, Emotion, Innocent

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.14, Random House

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• The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Self, People, Pessimistic

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.99, Penguin

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• Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

  Charlie LeDuff

  People, Birth, Environment

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.170, Penguin

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• Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

  Majora Carter

  Color, People, Community

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• Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

  Phil Cooke

  Leader, Vision, Important

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• The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into your system like stagnant water and turns toxic, poisoning your spirit. When this happens, you don't have many choices available. You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.

  Jodee Blanco

  Love You, Long, Giving

  Jodee Blanco (2010). “Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story”, p.139, Adams Media

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• Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

  Widad Akrawi

  Country, War, Profound

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• The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

  Anshu Jain

  Inspiring, Shadow, Important

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• Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.

  Byron York

  Party, Worry, President

  "Obama's dangerous legacy for Democrats" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. December 2, 2014.

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• "That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her.

  Tarryn Fisher

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• The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

  Rob Brezsny

  Music, Believe, Exercise

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• The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick up so many pollutants that you'll become more toxic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Sensitivity

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• The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Cancer, Facts, Bones

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• Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Doe, Testosterone

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• The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

  Helen Caldicott

  Toxic Waste, United States, Population

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• Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Believe, Government

  "Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2015.

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• We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Technology, Thinking

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• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  Al Meyerhoff

  Reality, Environmental, Substance

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