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• Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on

  Criss Jami

  Forgiveness, Moving, Character

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Desire, Flesh

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• Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully come to know Him. This is the defining quality of a true follower of Christ. We are never closer to the heart of God than when we are forgiving someone. And we are never farther from it than when we are holding a grudge.

  Nicky Cruz

  Heart, Humble, Compassion

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• Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

  Sark

  Dream, Real, People

  SARK (2009). “Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy P”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Wise, Opinion, Politician

  'The Endless Adventure' (1930) vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 20

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• Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

  Ann Landers

  New Year, Memories, Love You

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• Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Inspirational, Hurt, Love Is

  Lurlene McDaniel (2013). “No Time to Cry: The Dawn Rochelle Series, Book Four”, p.49, Darby Creek

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• The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bears, Whisky, Drunkenness

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

  Gary Busey

  Memories, Past, Mind

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Gossip, Negativity

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• The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Real, Heart, Water

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• My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

  Anna Banks

  Dad, Swallowing, Poison

  Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.75, Macmillan

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• What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Letting Go, Jesus, Heart

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 155, 1895.

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• ...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

  Anne Tyler

  Attitude, Looks, Ifs

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

  Robertson Davies

  Inspirational, Harm, Stomach

  Robertson Davies (1991). “Murther and Walking Spirits”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Education, People, Acquisition

  William Hanna, Thomas Chalmers (1852). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.”, p.206

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• Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
  If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
  God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
  To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
  The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
  God takes a text, and preaches patience.

  George Herbert

  Judging, Treasure, Want

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

  Stephen Leacock

  Clever, Tired, Reality

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

  Glenda Jackson

  Bed, World, Resentment

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• I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

  Robert Draper

  Thinking, Persons, Angry

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in ourselves.

  Owen Feltham

  Winning, Envy, Honor

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.114

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• I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.

  Paget Brewster

  Hate, Mind, Criminals

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• Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

  George Herbert

  Wisdom, Treasure, Speak

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

  Anthony Trollope

  Fear, Next, Best Things

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• Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what you're talking about. Have a bun.' 'He doesn't love the Turks,' said Philippa. 'He kills them.' 'That isn't hate,' said Kate Somerville. 'That's simply hoeing among one's principles to keep them healthy and neat. I'm sure he would tell you he bears them no personal grudge; and they think they're going to Paradise anyway, so it does everyone good.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Love, Mother, Hate

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