Shirley Cole

Quick tip: choosing to treat the negative people around you with love and kindness doesn’t mean that you have to allow yourself to be walked over. Distance is necessary for any relationship, and if someone is having a negative effect on you, you owe it to yourself and your own happiness to be able and prepared to put a bit of distance between them and you. Be brave and be kind, and don’t let people take you away from your resolution to be kind, loving, and to act with integrity, because those things come from inside, not from what other people observe. You don’t need anyone else’s permission or validation to be happy within yourself.

Quick tip: choosing to treat the negative people around you with love and kindness doesn’t mean that you have to allow yourself to be walked over. Distance is necessary for any relationship, and if someone is having a negative effect on you, you owe it to yourself and your own happiness to be able and prepared to put a bit of distance between them and you. Be brave and be kind, and don’t let people take you away from your resolution to be kind, loving, and to act with integrity, because those things come from inside, not from what other people observe. You don’t need anyone else’s permission or validation to be happy within yourself.

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