Energy Draining Quotes

#1. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

Les Brown

#2. Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms ... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.' ... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

David Perkins

#3. After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

Page Smith

#4. Fear is a conditioned response, a life-draining habit that can easily consume your energy, creativity and spirit if you are not careful. When fear rears its ugly head, beat it down quickly. The best way to do that is to do the thing you fear. Fast.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. In fact, I should probably charge money to all the normal people to simply not go to your social functions and ruin them.

Jenny Lawson

#6. Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.

Nikki Gemmell

#7. I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

Tracy Chapman

#8. Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

Gregory Rabassa

#9. How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you? Are you thinking of them negatively? Does your energy drop when you stop seeing them?

Frederick Lenz

#10. If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.

Kemi Sogunle

#11. Extroverts get their energy from being around a lot of people, but introverts find large groups draining and require time alone to recharge

Sophia Amoruso

#12. A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

Chogyam Trungpa

#13. The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

Allan Bloom

#14. Sometimes you have to lose your way to find yourself.

Linda Bradley

#15. We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

Tsutomu Shimomura

#16. Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

Frederick Lenz

#17. One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

Richard Rogers

#18. If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.

Bruce Lipton

#19. I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill, I'm fresh, look at me, I have money." At some point, when you have an audience for it, there are stories that need to be told.

Himanshu Suri

#20. My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel it at night; slithering and curling around my soul as it slowly devoured me. It was draining my energy and replacing it with an evil I was afraid to confront.

J.D. Stroube

#21. Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.

Durga Chew-Bose

#22. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

M. Kirin

#23. You may be mentally exhausted, convinced that your nonexistent problems - problems you know are nonexistent - are draining you of all your energy.

Paulo Coelho

#24. Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

Ralph Marston

#25. In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Jenny Lawson