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• If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Focus, Simplicity, Unhappy

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• Percy," my father said, "what exactly do you mean?" "Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Mean, Parent

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• He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Reading, School

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017). “F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Caring, News, Clarity

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

  Pema Chodron

  Quality, Down And, Might

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

  Tori Amos

  Jesus, Years, Guy

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• By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Roots

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• There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

  Beth Ditto

  Bitter, Shame, Charming

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

  J. Paul Getty

  Women, Jealous, Wife

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• The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings, the grad students or interns who tell you about syndromes, conditions, deviances, and disorders, and they love, love, love to talk. They speak in half-sentences with a knowing smile-squint, watch you falter at the pause, and then keep talking.

  Craig Clevenger

  Talking, Knowing, Bored

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• Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Girl, Silly, Mind

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• People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful.

  Jessica Zafra

  Book, Thinking, Self

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Hate, Yield, Might

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 513), 1997.

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• A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

  Gloria Estefan

  Parent, Upset

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Jealous, Sarcasm

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• It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

  Alice Miller

  Beautiful, Lonely, Confused

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• Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

  Dick Cavett

  Ego, Comedian, Giants

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• I've learned that each day is definitely a gift. When my dad died, I made sure I said everything to him. I realized that once he's gone, he's gone. No matter how angry or resentful or whatever.

  John Feldmann

  Dad, Matter, Gone

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

  Marissa Mayer

  What Matters, Missing, Protect

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I would guess that Ray Bradbury would be equally resentful of what they did with Illustrated Man, which, you know, took a central idea thesis of his and pissed all over it - made it into one of the worst movies ever made.

  Rod Serling

  Men, Ideas, Rays

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Sight, Interesting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear.

  Wayne Dyer

  Insecure, Feelings, Emotion

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  People, Wife, Cooking

  "Meet Beyoncé's Favorite Novelist". Interview with Keziah Weir, www.elle.com. February 15, 2014.

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• If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Order, Forgiving, Goes On

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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• The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Class, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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