#resentment

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#forgive #forgiven #harbored #i #i tried

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

— Peter Marshall

#any #anybody #bridge #come #destroy

...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#arbell #cale #god #hand #hate

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. ↗

— Samantha Leahy

#addiction-recovery #anger #emotions #inspirational #recovery

For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#nausea #resentment #change

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

— Dieter F. Uchdorf

#heartache #resentment #stubbornness #life

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. ↗

— John Avlon

#fear #find #follows #new #now

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly. ↗

— John Avlon

#into #people #politics #resentment #tap

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#assumption #case #comparisons #created #each

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. ↗

— Ben Elton

#equal #feeling #opposite #resentment #sympathy