Quotes About Resentment

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction.

I hate birthdays.

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

El daño que le hizo pertenece a su vida anterior y, aunque ahora se echara a sus brazos o se arrodillara ante ella pidiéndole perdón y piedad, ya no habría cómo reparar lo sucedido. [...] y bien hará ella en no permitir que ese dolor nuevo y viejo la guíe hasta él, porque curarla ya no va a poder hacerlo, y volverla a enfermar, no se lo piensa permitir.

The warmth of God's grace melts our resentment, cools our tongues, and replaces our anger with love. It doesn't mean the wound didn't happen or that it doesn't hurt, but it means we choose to focus on God's grace instead of our wounds and live in thankfulness instead of demanding justice.

He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing. Sheba said that she had sensed something resentful about him, as if he begrudged her for having the power to attract him.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you—it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.

We all owe emotional debts to the past, in the form of feelings we couldn't allow ourselves to express. The past isn't over as long as these debts go unpaid. You don't have to return to the person who made you angry or afraid, with the intention of revising how the past turned out. For that person, the impact can never be the same as it is for you. The purpose of getting rid of emotional debt is to find your place in the present.

You feel resentful to be on the low side of the comparison, yet being on the high side brings no peace either, because there's no such thing as being better all the time. So this is a great game to give up---you win by walking away.

People often resent the dealers. But in the end they prefer them to thugs or thieves.

Anger is airborne. It can be inhaled, and once it enters a body it becomes a tenacious blob of blues and browns with tiny speckles of red. It settles heavy in the lungs, making breathing ever so difficult.

Wade worked his rope, readying it for the next calf, telling himself he didn't care if Abigail had fallen for Dylan's charm, didn't care if they were going out tomorrow night, didn't care if they got hitched and had a passel of kids. Dylan was slipping on the gloves Maddy had fetched as he passed Wade. "Must be losing my touch," he mumbled. Wade smothered the grin that fought for release.

I don't like your tone." "I don't like your shoes.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

While Control came with whispers about being part of a kind of invisible dynasty, which naturally bred resentment. There was no denying that fact, even if, up close, the dynasty was more like a devolving franchise.

You probably accept a subordinate role in your relationships with family members, lovers, and friends. Undoubtedly this gives rise to anger (although you may not be aware of it). You like the security of these relationships, but you feel angry toward the people who provide it.

Forgiveness is all about taking care of you, not the person you need to forgive. It's about putting your desire to feel good before your desire to be right. It's about taking responsibility for your own happiness instead of pretending it's in somebody else's hands. It's about owning your power by giving all your anger, resentment, and hurt the heave-ho.

Holding on to resentment is like taking poison and waiting for your enemies to die.

We tend to hold on to resentment because we feel like the nitwit who wronged us doesn't deserve foreignness. Meanwhile, the only person being punished by your resentment is you. Forgiveness is about you deserving peace, not necessarily about others deserving your forgiveness. You are allowing nasty those of nasty things to take up precious space in your mind. If you love yourself, you'll end your own torture and let it go. (239)