Quotes About Resentment

Gratitude: Only when people remember the good others have done for them will they have gratitude. Unfortunately, however, most people remember the bad people have done to them far longer than the good. Or to put it another way, gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

Gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

Gratitude must be constantly fed (unlike resentment, which lives on naturally), and physical reminders are essential.

When we ignore the pain, it grows bigger and bigger, and like an abscess that is never drained, eventually it will rupture. When that happens, it can reach into every area of our lives—our health, our families, our jobs, our friendships, our faith, and our very ability to feel joy may be diminished by the fallout from resentments, anger, and hurts that are never named.

Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

He felt a moment's passionate gratitude to her. He'd seen her look at the boy, and knew how she must feel. She'd known about the lad, of course, but seeing the flesh-and-blood proof that her husband had shared another woman's bed wasn't something a wife should be asked to put up with. Little wonder if she was inclined to stick pins in John, him pushing the lad under her nose as he had.

I hate my own attorneys!

As a child I dreamed of playing for Arsenal, because I loved them. Now I hate them for the way Wenger treated me.

I'm not one to dwell on the past and have resentments.

Envy aims very high.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Sometimes when you're sad, it's easier to be angry.

you have to hate anyone who can dismiss you, even if they're good to you, because you work for them and not with them.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

In the seed of the city of the just, a malignant seed is hidden, in its turn: the certainty and pride of being in the right -- and of being more just than the many others who call themselves more just than the just. This seed ferments in bitterness, rivalry, resentment; and the natural desire for revenge on the unjust is colored by a yearning to be in their place and to act as they do.

If our past fences us in with resentment and with desires for revenge, we are old before our time because the past holds us captive. If I can't forgive someone who has hurt me in the past, even if the hurting was mean and intentional, I am letting them control me years later. It is enough that someone hurt me when I was five or fifteen or fifty. Why let them continue to hurt me today? Why should I allow their

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

Daisy said, "I hate school too.

I hate school.

When you are The Other, you begin to resent the majority and look for ways to piss them

Terry cooked for me, but I resented having to do dishes. As I saw it, Terry liked cooking-he enjoyed it, he told me so. Well, I didn't enjoy washing dishes- I hated it, and I'd told him so-and didn't see why I should have to do something I hated after he got to do something he liked. I mean, that wasn't fair, was it?