Bitterness And Resentment Quotes

• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  Ja Rule

  Block, Blessing, Flow

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• Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Bitterness, Resentment

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.48, Conari Press

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• Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

  Alana Stewart

  Hurt, Bitterness, Resentment

  "How I Survived My Divorce From Rod Stewart" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cancer, Anger

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

  Unknown

  Forgiving God, Ephesians, Be Kind

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• 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

  Nature, Hate, Justice

  Adam Smith (1948). “Adam Smith's moral and political philosophy”

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Yoga

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• To hate another is to hate yourself.
  We all live within the one Universal Mind.
  What we think about another, we think about ourselves.
  If you have an enemy, forgive him now.
  Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve.
  You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate.
  Show charity and goodwill toward others
  and it will return to enhance your own life
  in many wonderful ways.

  Bryan Adams

  Forgiveness, Hate, Men

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

  Paul Brunton

  Acceptance, Grace, May

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1, Human Experience; Pt. 2, The Arts in Culture”, Larson Publication

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