#resentment

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#beat #burnout #giving #giving up #i

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

#different #different path #down #dragged #i

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#anger #around #bitterness #carry #great

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. ↗

— Adam Smith

#defense #given #innocence #justice #nature

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#deserved #may #reproach #resentment #show

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive". ↗

— Hope Mirrlees

#resentment #love

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#respect #respect

Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from the brink. And yet one women writes a letter, and my whole world falls to pieces. You see, she is an ordinary woman. A good one, even. That's the point ... Nothing [a recognizably bad person does] can surprise or shock me, or worry me. But she denounced Julia and sent her to her death because she resented her, and because Julia is a Jew. I thought in this simple contrast between the civilized and the barbaric, but I was wrong. It is the civilized who are the truly barbaric, and the [Nazi] Germans are merely the supreme expression of it. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #denunciation #evil #good #jews

... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or kindness. That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#jealousy #resentment #jealousy

May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#healing #inspiration #releasing-fear #releasing-regret #releasing-resentment