Resentment Quotes - Page 17

• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

  Eoin Colfer

  Inspire, Genius, Facts

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox”, p.102, Penguin UK

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• Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Time, Enemy, Feels

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fear, Real

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• Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

  Jack Kornfield

  Forgiveness, Mean, Justice

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• Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Expectations, Littles

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• When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

  Doris Lessing

  Eye, Men, White Man

  The Grass is Singing (1950) ch. 8

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• When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.34, FastPencil Inc

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• Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Letting Go, What Matters

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• I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Heart, Nursing, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.117, Macmillan

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• To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Adults, Wake Up

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.362, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl -

  Dorothy Koomson

  Girl, Emotion, Cry

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• If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

  Scott Hahn

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Scott Hahn (2009). “Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots”, p.91, Image

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• Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gratitude, Euphemism

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.105, Penguin

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• Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Lying, World, Way

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• Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might have felt. He had supported him from the beginning, and he was the cat Firestar naturally turned to when he needed advice.

  Erin Hunter

  Wise, Cat, Brave

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• The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"

  Confucius

  Fashion, Practice, Joy

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book One, Section 1.1),

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• We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, A&C Black

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• Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Blood, Absurd, Laughed

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• You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Voice, Parent

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• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

  Pema Chodron

  Disappointment, Buddhism, Irritation

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• [Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

  William Safire

  Class, Politics, Rich

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• American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism

  Susan Sontag

  Anxiety, Energy, Floating

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• Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory. The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, Thinking, Ill Will

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.10, Profile Books

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• Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it.

  Terry Virgo

  Disappointment, Regret, Joy

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