Quotes About Resentment

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

Hatred is one long wait.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

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

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

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

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.