#resentment

Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for fear of the unknown. (Narcotics Anonymous Book/page 33) ↗

— Narcotics Anonymous

#fear-of-unknown #narcotics-anonymous #resentment #anger

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#resentment #anger

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#back #forgiveness #gives #headache #holding

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment. ↗

— Robert Sheaffer

#resentment #roman-catholic-church #life

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

— Kim Edwards

#resentment #love

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ↗

— Malachy McCourt

#like #other #person #poison #resentment

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. ↗

— Al Capp

#different #else #embarrassment #everyone #how

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#attitude #continue #derogatory #detroit #family

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

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