Taking on toxicity? 

Do you "take on" or allow yourself to be impacted by the toxic behaviour of others? 

Or are you able to "take on" toxicity by remaining in control of our responses, behaviours and emotional well-being?

“Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. … I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him.” - Marcus Aurelius

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and I agree. So do a few important Stoic philosophers.