Resentments Quotes

53 quotes by 47 authors

He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siÃ¨cle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people… — Harper Lee
I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us. — Anne Lamott
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. — Chuck Palahniuk
People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack. — Charlie Sheen
Expectations are resentments under construction. — Anne Lamott
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive… — Fred Rogers
Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go… — N.D. Wilson
The reason this system canâ€™t be overthrown in this country,â€ Walter said, â€œis all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered… — Jonathan Franzen
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn
Weâ€™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… — Elizabeth Gilbert
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
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… — Richard Paul Evans
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,… — Marya Hornbacher
There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there. — Cassandra Clare
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit… — Mark Twain
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments — Confucius

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