Quotes About Emotions

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Hate would destroy him who hated.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.