Quotes on Doormat

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.