One negative stroke is sixteen times more powerful than a positive stroke… And if you have people around you who are not sensitive to who you are… and the people that can hurt you the most ladies and gentlemen are the people that you love, that you love – they’re the ones that you’re vulnerable to, they’re the ones that can get to you… And if they’re insensitive, I don’t care who they are… See if you don’t draw the line with people, if you just let them run rampant in your life and you let things happen to you that you don’t feel good about, if you continue to allow it to happen, you won’t feel good about yourself. Your image of yourself will erode. So you’ve got to draw the line.
-Les Brown