Don’t hold grudges. Life’s too long.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these...

Today’s marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It’s one thing to say, ‘I forgive,’ but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after...

A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy.

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized...

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected…

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the...

There comes a time in your life, when you are left with too many yesterdays and very less tomorrows. When you can look back and relive all the golden moments of your life. You would...

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don’t want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn’t desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates...

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

Resentment is often a woman’s inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility – that of making choices.

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting...

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me...

Work is the undoing of nature.

Not only a few times, but every time he did not give in to his urge to go look for her, he resented the moment that came in its place. Even if the moment was...

She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no...

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Odd, don’t you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men...

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect...

It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body dies. Yet, so many people can go years hanging onto pain...

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless “want” are not creative attractors and have no value.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

He wasn’t, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us– except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated...

Respect doesn’t come without a little resentment.

Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later on, just consider the guy who doesn’t believe in cunnilingus…

Anger, resentment and disappointment, in most cases, can not exist in our lives without our expressed permission. An honest and sincere introspection will reveal that all three emotions are centered and rooted in self. They...

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

Well, she didn’t lock us up in closets.” in fact, my mother behaved much worse than that, but by focusing on the empty closet, I avoided looking at what waited beyond it.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and “should have.” It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day...

get all the breaks.

… Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or kindness. That’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the...

But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?

Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else’s sorrow rising to your level of pain… it never happens – save yourself endless hurt.

Living in love, gratitude and forgiveness, is peaceful and spiritually rejuvenating. Living under the emotional constraints of anger and resentment is draining and toxic to heart and soul. It can be difficult to let go...

…you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care…

Time doesn’t heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

She should have died on that day. Perhaps, in a way, she had.

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they’d taken their course.