Read this before staying another day! These life-changing enough is enough quotes will help you to finally leave that toxic relationship!
Sometimes being someone other than the victim identity you’ve given yourself is too uncertain and uncomfortable.
Have you ever wondered why it’s easier to complain than to find solutions or figure out how we got ourselves involved with toxic people in the first place.
We have built homes in our pain and misfortunes, connecting the dots of our pasts to future outcomes, the irony is that looking back in the past only causes us to repeat the same mistakes.
We would have to say to ourselves, actually enough is enough, I get to create my reality, I’m no longer the little girl that is scared and helpless.
I can choose to give up my pain dependency and love myself enough to expect better outcomes, not cause of who I have been in the past but because of the new standards I have set for myself and who I am choosing to be in the present.
Until you really have gotten to a point where you feel like enough is enough, you will keep learning the same lessons till you pass the test and upgrade to a new level.
So here are 97 ‘enough is enough’ quotes to help you with the final decision of cutting ties with toxic people.
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Enough is Enough Quotes
“And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry” and walk away.”
― Taylor Swift
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Was it hard?” I ask.
Letting go?”
Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real.”
― Lisa Schroeder
“I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.”
― Turcois Ominek
“When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don’t wait for the second time before you address it or cut them off.
Many survivors are used to the “wait and see” tactic which only leaves them vulnerable to a second attack. As your boundaries get stronger, the wait time gets shorter. You never have justify your intuition.”
― Shahida Arabi
“The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—”
P.A. Speers
“Shout out to everyone transcending
a mindset, mentality, desire, belief,
emotion, habit, behavior or vibration,
that no longer serves them.”
― Lalah Delia
“As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.”
― John Mark Green
“Abusive relationships exist because they provide enough rations of warmth, laughter, and affection to clutch onto like a security blanket in the heap of degradation. The good times are the initial euphoria that keeps addicts draining their wallets for toxic substances to inject into their veins. Scraps of love are food for an abusive relationship.”
― Maggie Young
“Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“Just because
you feel lost
doesn’t mean
that you are.
Sometimes you
just have to relax,
breathe deep,
and trust the path
you’re on.”
― Lalah Delia
“Let’s normalize walking away from toxic situations. You don’t have to stick it out when your mental health is taking a beating, just because that’s what everyone expects of you. It’s okay to reassess and decide whether or not a situation is still acceptable”
― Catharina Maura
“You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue
“Let go of the naysayers who only serve to bog you down with negative messages, and find positive people who are excited about your future prospects. Some people were only meant to be a part of one aspect of your journey. If you can’t take them with you into the next phase of your life, then that’s okay; they have served their purpose. Don’t look back, and don’t overthink it.”
― Keisha Blair
“How you choose to feel today should not be dependent on others.”
― Anthon St. Maarten
“When dealing with toxic people always choose distance over disrespect.”
― Germany Kent
You made me laugh,
And I forgot all the tears.
You helped me up,
And I forgot the times
You let me down.
You were hatred,
Just as surely as
You were love.
You were everything right
And everything wrong—
Humility and
Defiance,
Cruelty
And kindness,
Approval and
Contempt.
You were everything
And nothing.
I had to let you go,
And it freed me.
Still, I’m sad,
For I know
Who you might have been.
I know you so well…
But you do not know me.”
― Kyrian Lyndon
“Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.”
― Winnie Nantongo
“That’s the thing about toxic relationships. They aren’t always toxic. They give us moments of happiness that we wish would last a lifetime. Those are the moments we cling onto. You convince yourself that there is enough love, underneath all of the chaos and mayhem you created in each other’s lives. You tell yourself that maybe there’s enough love left to make things work. And this made you question every little thing, including yourself. Maybe it wasn’t just him that was toxic. Maybe I was toxic to myself by continually opening the same closed doors, very well knowing there was nothing good behind them.”
― Finding Bohemia
“You’ll notice that I’ll never make a quote about a$$holes and/or d&cks in life. End of story. Dead-end. Avoid like the plague. They always multiply. They’re truly the most insecure people on this planet. That pretty much says it all. In conclusion, ignore them with all your might. Never give them your energy.”
― Major Mike Russell
“This morning, I woke up different.
I accepted that life goes on… I might still love you, I might still miss you, but I’m better off without you. So, I’m closing this chapter of hurt because I deserve to be happy. And the only way I’ll reach that is by letting go of toxic people who don’t want to see me grow. Holding on doesn’t make me strong, but letting go does.”
― M. Sosa
“Maybe I fell in love with a version of him that didn’t exist.”
― Namrata Gupta
“Staying, when you know you need to leave, is not a kindness to anyone. Least of all yourself.
But leaving, when everything in you wants to find a reason to stay, requires more kindness than you can possibly imagine.
We think we need strength and bravery to leave. I wonder if what we need is more softness.
If you need to leave, dig deep for every ounce of grace and mercy you have to muster. You’re going to need it.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc
“Sometimes parting with love is essential for survival. I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them.”
― Maggie Young
“I’ve given you my tears, sweat, and blood. You stole my heart, and you destroyed my mind. What else do you want? My soul too?”
― Mitta Xinindlu
“We don’t get to choose our family, but we can choose our friends. With courage, we can weed out narcissistic people. We can focus on those who do appreciate us, love us, and treat us with respect.”
― Dana Arcuri
“He would hurt me and make the hurt my fault. So no matter who got hurt, I was to be blamed, always.”
― Namrata Gupta
“Our soul ties were beyond toxic.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
― Charlena E. Jackson
“There are many toxic myths about love, but perhaps the worst is that “love conquers all.” This myth hurts us in all kinds of ways — such as the untold zillions of hours and wasted tears spent by people trying to heal, reform or otherwise change a partner.
Franklin Veaux
“Losing does not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.”
― Gift Gugu Mona
“Black Girls… Until you get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you’ll continue to go through the same thing. Constant arguing. Constant fighting. Constant lies. Constant disappointments. Constant emotional rollercoaster. Constant heartbreak. Constant headaches. Constant threats. Constantly fighting for his attention and love. Constantly looking through his phone. Constantly sneaking through his personal belongings. Constantly arguing and/or fighting with other women over who’s supposed to be YOUR mate. Secretly checking up on him due to a lack of trust. Listen, NOBODY is worth your inner peace! What I’ve listed above is NOT a relationship. It’s a toxic mess. So, what are you going to do?”
― Stephanie Lahart
“Narcissistic and toxic relationships leave you feeling depleted in a variety of ways: feeling like you aren’t good enough, chronically second-guessing yourself, often apologizing, and/or feeling as though you are losing your mind, helpless, hopeless, sad, depressed, anxious, unsettled, no longer getting pleasure out of your life, ashamed, guilty, and exhausted.”
― Ramani S. Durvasula
“Just say NO to complicated, dead-end, unhealthy, and toxic relationships.”
― Stephanie Lahart
“An overload on emotional capacity is the reason people get to the point where they feel they cannot continue to stay in a relationship, remain at the same place of employment, continue in a one-sided friendship, struggle with the pressures created by a harmful spouse, try to meet unrealistic toxic family obligations, or whatever else might be at the core of an “I can’t do this anymore” statement.”
― Shannon Thomas
“Stop asking God to make that toxic relationship work. You shouldn’t be in that relationship in the first place. But here you go all hardheaded trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change. Understand this, someone who loves you will never let you beg to be loved back.”
― Keishorne Scott
“The creative process is lost in a toxic environment. The risk of staying is too great because in it you may never reach your full destiny.”
― Germany Kent
“Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
“There are many paths to a fairytale ending… Blocking, unfollowing, muting, and unfriending also lead to “Happily ever after.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Hope can be a dangerous emotion when you are in a narcissistic or toxic relationship.”
― Ramani S. Durvasula
“To lover out there…
Most people are in an abuse, bad and toxic relationship, because they have a goal of breaking a record for being in a relationship the longest years. They want to brag about being in a relationship for 10 years or more, but they are not happy for those 10 years. They forget that years means nothing if the relationship is bad.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos
“You may remain a couple after betrayal and even establish a quality relationship, but the mental anguish never leaves, and your soul will haunt you forever.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2002
“I would have taken a bullet for you.
It just never crossed my mind that you would be the one to shoot.”
― Ramayana Roxas
“Forgiving once is ok, but don’t forgive someone who betrayed you twice. Don’t create space for more betrayal. Don’t let love make you look like a fool. Love is sacred and strong, not so weak.”
― Garima Soni
“One who possesses significant low self-esteem, is more likely to betray you.”
― RJ Intindola
“A narcissistic or toxic or deeply entitled person will not change enough to make a close relationship sustainable in a meaningful way. And you will never be enough for him or her.”
― Ramani S. Durvasula
“Healthy people don’t stay in unhealthy family dynamics. Healthy people don’t allow their parents to control their life, they live for themselves. Healthy people don’t follow the career path their parents want them to take, they choose the right path for themselves. Healthy people don’t marry someone to meet the expectations of their family, they commit to someone who they love and makes them happy. Healthy people don’t let their abusive family members define them, they seek help and build a better future for themselves”
― Farah Ayaad
“She felt rage boiling inside of her, begging to get out, begging to be set free. She succumbed to the supplications of her inner beast. She set her rage free.”
― Wiss Auguste
“Sometimes you reach to a point when enough is enough. Sometimes, you have to be done, just done and nothing else.”
From (The Awakening)
― Jyoti Patel
“Goodbyes are never easy, but sometimes goodbye is necessary to regain our sanity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya
“Girl, glow up. Elevate your mindset from victim to survivor.”
― Germany Kent
“There’s something magical and beautiful in letting go of toxic people and situations.”
― Mitta Xinindlu
“Years means nothing if the relationship is toxic or bad.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos
“List down all your distractions, all your addictions, all your hang-ups, and all your toxic relationships. Then cut them out of your life so you can finally move forward.”
― Kevin J. Donaldson
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fu%k on.”
― Tupac Shakur
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Deborah Reber,
“Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos
“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.”
― Jerry West
“Sometimes you have to walk away from people, not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.”
― Melchor Lim
“At your absolute best, you still wouldn’t be good enough for the wrong person.
At your worst, you’ll still be worth it for the right person.”
― Karen Salmanson
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”
― Mandy Hale
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky
“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde
“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away.”
― Henry Rollins
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
― Nicholas Sparks
“Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.”
― Patti Callahan Henry
“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you.”
― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
“Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.”
― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi
“Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Stress shortens your lifespan. Even a broken heart can kill you. There is an undeniable mind-body connection. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful, panicked fight-or-flight that leaves you exhausted and numb with grief. You were not meant to live like animals tearing one another to shreds. Don’t turn your hair gray. Don’t carve a roadmap of pain into the sweet wrinkles on your face. Don’t lay in the quiet with your heart pounding like a trapped, frightened creature. For your own precious and beautiful life, and for those around you — seek help or get out before it is too late. This is your wake-up call!”
― Bryant McGill
“In a healthy relationship, vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he or she hurt you, they feel remorse and they make amends. It’s safe to be honest. In an abusive system, vulnerability is dangerous. It’s considered a weakness, which acts as an invitation for more mistreatment. Abusive people feel a surge of power when they discover a weakness. They exploit it, using it to gain more power. Crying or complaining confirms that they’ve poked you in the right spot.”
― Christina Enevoldsen
“Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy
“Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate to another that the opinions and emotions of the target are invalid, irrational, selfish, uncaring, stupid, most likely insane, and wrong, wrong, wrong. Invalidators let it be known directly or indirectly that their targets views and feelings do not count for anything to anybody at any time or in any way.”
― David M. Allen
“People expect all stories of abuse
to be loud and angry
but they’re not.
Sometimes they’re quiet and cruel
and swept under the rug.”
― Trista Mateer
“Survivors who don’t stand up for themselves often develop physical and emotional illnesses. Many become depressed because they feel so hopeless and helpless about being able to change their lives. They turn their anger inward and become prone to headaches, muscle tension, nervous conditions and insomnia.”
― Beverly Engel
“Abuse is never contained to a present moment, it lingers across a person’s lifetime and has pervasive long-term ramifications.”
― Lorraine Nilon
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain
“you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you”
― Nayyirah Waheed
“Hurt shouldn’t pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of pain. You should have time to breathe, time to scream it out until it doesn’t exist anymore.”
― Sharde Richardson
“I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.”
― Zachary Quinto
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.”
― Mandy Hale
“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
“Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being ‘fine’ that we lose track of how ‘not fine’ we are.”
― Martina Boone
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Here’s a glorious thought: You don’t have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“There are times in life when people must know when to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
― Terry Pratchett
“If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
― Sarah Dessen
“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward”
― Fridtjof Nansen
“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.”
― Beyonce Knowles
“I want to know that there was nothing I could have done to stop you from hurting me. All I did was exist.”
― Katelyn Saul
“Love isn’t supposed to hurt at all, being with a waste of human DNA is also I waste of time, find someone else who’s worth everything.”
― Elena Stargazer
“No, Queen, abuse is NOT okay. I encourage you to stop making excuses for being abused. Come on, Queen… You CAN do this. It’s time to honor yourself! You are worthy of love, respect, and appreciation. You ARE important. No matter how you may feel or what has been said to you, you DO matter.”
― Stephanie Lahart
“If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not – it’s time to go.”
― Mandy Hale
“You find yourself explaining the basic elements of human respect to a full-grown man or woman. Normal people understand fundamental concepts like honesty and kindness. Psychopaths often appear to be childlike and innocent, but don’t let this mask fool you. No adult should need to be told how he or she is making other people feel.”
― Jackson MacKenzie
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