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.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.””

The elimination diet:Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.Then watch your health, and life, improve.

I heard Tash say: Nomi, you’re sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me that some people can leave and some can’t and those who...

Do you think peace of mind can be found in holding a grudge… or harboring resentment… or wallowing in thoughts of what could have been? Me neither.

Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.

Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain....

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down...

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others’ enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically...

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.

We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant...

I’m not like you. I’ll never be like you. Best of all, I don’t have to be.

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener’s innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive”.

With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a...

A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.

Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment.

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

Resentment is our biggest enemy.

A person’s true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you’ll realize that there are dogs in human form.

…his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not...