Desmond Tutu Quotes About Resentment

Quotes about: Resentment

• Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

  Desmond Tutu

  Blood, Digestion, Pressure

  ""Truth and reconciliation"". BBC Focus on Africa magazine, January-March 2000.

• I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing. I don’t think I liked fishing. I mean, you had to sit quietly and still, but I enjoyed the ride. And it was fun, it was fun. I mean, as I say, you didn’t go around lugging a deep sense of resentment. We knew, yes, we were deprived. It wasn’t the same thing for white kids, but it was as full a life as you could make it. I mean, we made toys for ourselves with wires, making cars, and you really were exploding with joy!

  Desmond Tutu

  Fun, Father, Mean

  "Forging Equality in South Africa". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

• When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

  Desmond Tutu

  Nursing, People, Looks

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

• 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

  Revenge, Self, Forgiving

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