The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Miguel Ruiz

mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong.

of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.