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The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful. — Mike Norton

Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection. — Debasish Mridha

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. — Allen Ginsberg

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away. — Confucius

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future. — Dan Miller

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer

She feels the anger quiet into a briny resentment. The bitterness floats like an inkblot in her mind's eye. — Hala Alyan

Be ever watchful. Be watchful of your thoughts, your deedsLest predjudice, resentment,hatred, and intolerance drive Her from your world ... Again. — Mary Summer Rain

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. — Rick Perlstein

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. — Neil Kinnock

The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is. — Josh Bazell

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. — Jonathan Lethem

It is one of the important uses of civility to signify resentment. — Ambrose Bierce

Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake. — Julian Fellowes

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. — Anthony Hopkins

In my experience, if you are not radically grateful every day, resentment always takes over. — Richard Rohr

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment. — Dieter F. Uchdorf

A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion. — J.D. Robb

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. — Eckhart Tolle

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts. — Sharon Salzberg

She didn't sleep much that night. She spent the better part of the night burning with resentment and envy. — Ira Trivedi

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment. — Richard Rohr

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. — Lawrence G. Lovasik

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear. — Susana Martinez

We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born — Aaron Sorkin

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. — Charles Churchill

What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce. — David Frost

The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear. — Alcoholics Anonymous

I remember that night fondly. And by fondly, I mean with bitter resentment toward all things alcoholic and with a penis. — Tara Sivec

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good. — Desmond Tutu

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient. — Paul Brunton

At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous. — Donald L. Hicks

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things. — Susan Sontag

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community. — David Blunkett

I chose silent resentment in favor of expressing my feelings, and that was a mistake. — Ellen Hopkins

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. — Melody Beattie

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion. — Desmond Tutu

Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it. — Terry Virgo

Justice and vengeance get all tangled together when the law is written by a tyrant and ultimately overturned by the forces of anger and resentment. — Robert J. Crane

To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light. — Richard J. Foster

In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative. — Jonathan Tropper

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. — Barbara Sher

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected ... — Jacqueline Ripstein

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. — Lord Chesterfield

He thought against Napoleon, in both senses of the word. See how fruitful resentment can be, and how it can make one — Rene Girard

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment. — Mason Cooley

Resentment generates hate; love tries to understand. — Debasish Mridha

You can never win resentment with an argument - only love can do that. — Debasish Mridha

He continued to see inevitable events from the past as avoidable, long after they'd taken their course. — Hugh Howey

Resentment's appetite is never fulfilled. — Stephen Richards

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment. — Neal Shusterman

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. — Peter Marshall

Anger and resentment are the cancer of our mind.
To be cured, inject love in your heart and be kind. — Debasish Mridha

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it. — Brian Austin Green

Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE! — Dana Arcuri

Nelson Mandela wrote, "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. — Brene Brown

I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment. — Pierce Brosnan

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped. — Anne Lamott

Relinquishing resentment is redemption — Priyanka Deshmukh

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends. — Mike Norton

He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary. — John Le Carre

The truth is that even if resentment is triggered by an external object, it is not located anywhere else but in our mind. — Matthieu Ricard

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment. — Sri Chinmoy

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out. — Gregory Benford

Many people give out of obligation and compulsion, which leads to resentment. — Henry Cloud

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. — Kim Edwards

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. — Samuel Johnson

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. — Samuel Johnson

Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy. — Nelson Mandela

May you allow fear to soften and melt away.
May you release all regrets and resentments. — Charlene Costanzo

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value. — Bryant McGill

Resentment is our biggest enemy. — Debasish Mridha

When the waves of love, extinguish the fire of resentment, then the dawn of peace on earth will begin. — Debasish Mridha

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living. — Kaori Ozaki

There are no justified resentments. — Wayne Dyer

Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting. — Pema Chodron

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Resentment is always easier than forgiveness. — Ellen Hopkins

Once an athlete feels his coach does not believe in him resentment develops and everyone loses at that point. — George M. Gilbert

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. — Alexandra Cruz

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose. — Oswald Chambers

Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters. — Leon Brown

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. — John Irving

Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else. — Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes we hold on to something - a person, a resentment, a regret, an idea of who we are - because we don't know what to reach for next. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. — John Henry Newman

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. — Mitt Romney

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person. — Karen Salmansohn

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment. — Aldous Huxley

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly. — Stephen Richards

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment. — E.D.E.N. Southworth

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things. — Marvin J. Ashton

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free. — Roger Ebert

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg