Quotes About Grudges

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

Bitterness is the cancer of bones.

In every way, un-forgiveness makes us the victim—

life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

Holding on to offenses emotionally incarcerates us, but forgiveness is a key that liberates.

We forget what we say much more than what we hear, what we write much more than what we read, what we send much more than what we receive, that is why we barely count the insults we hand out to others, unlike those dealt out to us, which is why almost everyone harbors some grudge against someone.

olvidamos lo que decimos mucho más que lo que escuchamos, lo que escribimos mucho más que lo que leemos, lo que enviamos mucho más que lo que nos alcanza, por eso no contamos apenas con las ofensas que infligimos y sí en cambio con las que sufrimos, y por eso casi todo el mundo le tiene alguna guardada a alguien.

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

I knew someone who used to go to sleep counting, not sheep, but people against whom he had grievances—bullies from childhood, kindergarten teachers, back to nannies even, bosses, employees, anybody awful up to the preceding day.

Holding on to anger is like

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along.

I can't forget things that way. There's only one thing for it, and that's to admit everything and accept everything, and find some way of living that doesn't mean always sitting on top of a chest of grudges, trying to keep the lid from opening.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.