Frankie Cosmos Quotes

You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.

If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

I can't spend my life worrying about others.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

That's a really healthy thing - family will always protect you from yourself.

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.

There is nothing about me that I wouldn't want anyone to know, but there is a part of me that I do want to keep private and personal just because that is what's going to keep me sane in the long run - making sure people don't know my every move.

Just because our work environment is crazy doesn't mean we need to bring the craziness home.

It's not healthy to ever put someone first before yourself.

If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.

I can't be so guarded up all the time. I know it's not healthy.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours.

Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life.

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.