Don’t hold grudges. Life’s too long.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

A long held belief based on a perceived reality that is rooted in a diminishing view of yourself or others probably is not serving you.Today is a good day to let go of one of...

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

Don’t focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us,...

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

I’m sorry. I behaved like a jerk.You did.Is that forgiveness?I’m not sure. I think it’s an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.

…Obyann, you’re talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers.

Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present… today.

Corrival looked around. ‘So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.”Me?’ Ravel asked. ‘Why do I have to start...

I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.

I remember everything,’ Bette Midler flatly notes. ‘But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do that any more. Bad, bad stuff. I did as a young person, but...

The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can’t ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don’t mistake prosperity...

One of (Juan’s) friends told me that he thought he made a mistake and wanted to come back. I told him all he had to do was pick up the phone and ask me, and...

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Once you decide to forgive, you initiate the healing process. Forgiveness gives your soul permission to move on to the higher and healthier ground of emotional recovery. Forgiveness is to your soul what antibiotics are...

Happiness has never been a product of a mind that’s full of grudges and regrets.

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

No matter how strong you plan to be, you can never subdue the pain that comes with the grudges you refuse to let go.

Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest...

I can’t hold a grudge against him for that. If he didn’t try to pass me for a win on the last lap, I don’t know if I could respect that.

Grudges make your heart fragile.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn’t concerns anyone.

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom...

The wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you’ll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.

I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

If you withhold love as a form of punishment, who is being punished?

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.