When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.” — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In my experience, it's quite an empowering thing to forgive someone because you take control and take ownership of that feeling, of… — Alex Roe Copy Share Image
“Well, you were the Boss’s poodle. And you liked it. You liked to be spit on. You weren’t human. You weren’t real.… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me."… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self. — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“I picked it up, stared at it, and thought: Why am I the one bending and lifting while he sits downstairs complaining… — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And when a mind is too deficient in understanding, the resulting gap is often filled with resentment. —” — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
“Your difficulty can be hard enough, but the resentment or anger you drag along with it can be even more debilitating than… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer,… — Tracy Winegar Copy Share Image
You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions… — Homer Copy Share Image
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.… — Joan Lunden Copy Share Image