Allow yourself to be angry, but always be respectful. Do say what’s on your mind, but do it in a way that protects the other person’s feelings. Control your emotions.
Don’t wait for someone to recognise what you need: to perform to your full potential, your needs must be met. Find ways to get your needs met without sacrificing others’ needs in the process.
Recognise your rights and protect them. Believe you deserve to be treated with respect and dignity at all times. Stop apologising for everything.
Understand that your rights, thoughts, feelings, needs and desires are just as important as everyone else’s – but remember they are not more important than anyone else’s.
The reactions you have to others gives you more information about yourself than about them – what you do and don’t accept about yourself.
Treat yourself the way you want others to treat you. The amount of abuse you tolerate in your relationships is often equal to the amount of abuse you heap on yourself.
If your friend is telling you other people’s secrets…then they may be sharing yours as well.
You can decide not to let others’ actions and opinions invade your heart and mind. You can decide whom to walk beside into tomorrow, and whom to leave behind today.
You may not be able to control all the things people do to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
All the negativity in the world can’t bring you down unless you allow it to get inside your head. Remember that you have full control over your attitude.