Resentment Quotes - Page 23

• As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Hurt, Journey, Soul

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Road to Grace”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

  John Irving

  Teenager, Adults, Moments

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

  Man Ray

  Laughter, Criticism, Limits

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Letting Go, Regret, Eye

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• His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Two, Woven

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.123, Penguin

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• The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

  William Hague

  July, Cities, Political

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• We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Flaws

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.206, Penguin

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• So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Determination, Succeed, Dice

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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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• Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains.

  Bell Hooks

  Uprising, Space, May

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.29, Routledge

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• Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Compassion

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• Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Hardened, Chunks

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.20, Hazelden Publishing

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• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Men, Insulted Him

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.67, First Avenue Editions

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• Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Betrayal, Long

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (2011). “The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”, p.213, Ballantine Books

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• The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hero, Heart, Past

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.159, Anchor

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• Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

  Nora Roberts

  Fall, Bridges, Sides

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.581, Penguin

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• [On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.

  Mildred Cable

  Camels, Goes On, Moments

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Emotional, Control Someone, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 07, 2011

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• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Stress, Sadness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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• There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Grief, Love Is, Should Have

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (2011). “Selected Stories”, p.246, Hachette UK

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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, Grudge

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• There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Trying, Terrible

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• To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.

  Fay Weldon

  Happiness, Hate, Hands

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• Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Hurt

  "Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry? The Power of Forgiveness" by Margaret Hession, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2017.

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• No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Women, Long, Together

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.356

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