Mayte Garcia Quotes

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

Anything negative, I have to let go because it's too toxic for me.

You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

My health is more important than arguing and bickering with people.

No, I never surround myself with people I hate.

I eliminated stress by eliminating people that I don't enjoy working with.

Even in my personal life, I can't bear to have bad feelings.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

There's no way you could get me onstage with someone that I didn't like. No way. I would never do that. We have our gripes and stuff like that. All bands have their drama, but life is too short to be miserable around somebody that you don't like.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.

No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself