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Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego. Resentment means to feel bitter, indignant, aggrieved, or offended. You resent other people's greed, their dishonesty, their lack of integrity, what they are doing, what they did in the past, what they said, what they failed to do, what they should or shouldn't have done. The ego loves it. Instead of overlooking unconsciousness in others, you make it into their identity. Who is doing that? The unconsciousness in you, the ego. Sometimes the "fault" that you perceive in another isn't even there. It is a total misinterpretation, a projection by a mind conditioned to see enemies and to make itself right or superior. At other times, the fault may be there, but by focusing on it, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else, you amplify it. And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself. By Eckhart Tolle Resentment Ego People Emotion Complaining

Hatred - The anger of the weak. By Alphonse Daudet Hatred Weak Anger

As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it. By Gregory Maguire Pass Depleted Recalibrated Years Abundance

Bitterness is captivity. By Lailah Gifty Akita Bitterness Captivity

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. By Tacitus Show Resentment Reproach Acknowledge Deserved

Resentment is a powerful and corrosive force, both on the slippery left and the slippery right, and the history of humankind can largely be read as a history of resentment. Aside from a profound philosophy of capital, what we really need is a profound psychology and philosophy of resentment. We must learn to live for ourselves, without reference to the other, and, at the same time, to rise above and beyond ourselves. Or else history will keep repeating itself, and our life will be a living death. By Neel Burton Slippery Resentment History Force Powerful

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly. By Stephen Richards Resentment Lies Heart Simply Causing

Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission. By Debasish Mridha Anger Vision Resentment Problems Understanding

Resentment generates hate; love tries to understand. By Debasish Mridha Resentment Hate Love Understand Generates

Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. By Dan Zadra Resentment Success Burden Incompatible Forgive

Resentment's appetite is never fulfilled. By Stephen Richards Resentment Fulfilled Appetite

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. By Nelson Mandela Resentment Drinks Die Glass Poison

Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment. By Jennifer Dubois Sadness Forever Unacknowledged Eventually Resentment

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. By Anne Lamott Expectations Happen Resentment Waiting

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. By Elizabeth I Hang Poison Resentments Overeaters Disease

Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy. By Henri Nouwen Resentment Coexist Gift Gratitude Blocks

Expectations are resentments under construction. By Anne Lamott Expectations Construction Resentments

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. By Anne Lamott Resentments Superior Make Feel

Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy. By Nelson Mandela Enemy Resentment Drinking Poison Thinking

Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment, By Pema Chodron Resentment Meditate Provokes

Part of you is broken, and the other part is bitter. Part of you wants to cry, and part of you wants to fight. The tears you cry are hot because they come from your heart, where there is a fire burning. It's the fire of anger. It's blazing. It's consuming. Its flames leap up under a steaming pot of revenge. And you are left with a decision. "Do I put the fire out or heat it up? Do I get over it or get even? Do I release it or resent it? Do I let my hurts heal, or do I let hurt turn into hate?" ... Resentment is the deliberate decision to nurse the offense until it becomes a black, furry, growling grudge ... Unfaithfulness is wrong. Revenge is bad. But the worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left. By Max Lucado Part Fire Broken Bitter Cry

A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy. By Taite Adams Lived Joy Life Mired Resentment

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment. By Neal Shusterman Respect Resentment

Hatred is settled anger. By Marcus Tullius Cicero Hatred Anger Settled

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it. By Brian Austin Green Resentment Tons Normal Control Worry

Hatred is love frustrated. By Ashley Montagu Hatred Frustrated Love

The degree to which we have not allowed ourselves to experience the reality of our true Self is represented by our resentment toward those who have actually done so. By David R. Hawkins Degree Allowed Experience Reality True

Relinquishing resentment is redemption By Priyanka Deshmukh Relinquishing Redemption Resentment

Holding onto resentment is like slapping yourself in the face and thinking someone else will feel the pain. By Nick Hernandez Holding Pain Resentment Slapping Face

It is said that resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die. There is no room for such a waste of energy in the service of God. By Reinhard Bonnke Die Resentment Drinking Poison Waiting

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host. By Susan L. Taylor Experiences Resentment Painful Memories Hurting

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. By Anne Lamott Expectations Happen Resentments Waiting

Resentment hurts the heart butlove heals the soul. By Debasish Mridha Resentment Soul Hurts Heart Butlove

antipathy toward By Graeme Simsion Antipathy

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things. By Marvin J. Ashton Resentment Soul Anger Good Things

Resentment causes us to stay in the past, our minds focused on the wrongs that have been done to us. It really is time to let go of it just as we would let go of something that's too hot and that would burn us if we held on to it too long. If we hold on to resentment even slightly too long, we're risking great injury - emotional and spiritual - not just to ourselves, but to those we resent, too. So let's let it go. Just for today. By Tom Walsh Long Past Stay Minds Focused

Anger, resentment and disappointment, in most cases, can not exist in our lives without our expressed permission. An honest and sincere introspection will reveal that all three emotions are centered and rooted in self. They are self preserving reactions sprung to life by our inconveniently unmet expectations. Joy and contentment replaces these emotions when we genuinely put others before ourselves. ~Jason Versey By Jason Versey Anger Resentment Disappointment Cases Permission

Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices. By Brenda Waggoner Godgiven Resentment Responsibility Choices Woman

A lifetime of unexplored disappointments can make us bitter, and stored-up resentment is toxic. By Brene Brown Bitter Toxic Lifetime Unexplored Disappointments

Bitterness block the sacred blessings. By Lailah Gifty Akita Bitterness Blessings Block Sacred

Resentment is a storytelling passion,' says the philosopher Charles Griswold in his book Forgiveness. I know well how compelling those stories are, how they grant immortality to an old injury. The teller goes in circles like a camel harnessed to a rotary water pump, diligently extracting misery, reviving feeling with each retelling. Feelings are kept alive that would fade away without narrative, or are invented by narratives that may have little to do with what once transpired and even less to do with the present moment. By Rebecca Solnit Forgiveness Charles Griswold Resentment Passion

Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often motivated by a desire to rationalize one's own shortcomings and to justify termination of sacred marriage covenants. By Richard G. Scott Criticism Feelings Unkindness Hatred Bitterness

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. By Charlie Sheen Resentments Saber Rocket Fuel Lives

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. By Catherine Ponder Steel Link Hold Resentment Bound

Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being. By Howard Martin Resentment Anger Frustration Worry Disappointmentnegative

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage. By Susan Glaspell Resentment Courage Opens Door Breeds

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment. By Robert A. Heinlein Gratitude Resentment Euphemism

Anger is really disappointed hope. By Erica Jong Anger Hope Disappointed

In my experience, if you are not radically grateful every day, resentment always takes over. By Richard Rohr Experience Day Resentment Radically Grateful

Resentment is a cage, talent is a captured bird. By Elif Shafak Resentment Cage Talent Bird Captured

With resentment, hearts burn in the fire of hatred. With forgiveness, hearts dance with pure joy. By Debasish Mridha Hearts Resentment Hatred Burn Fire

The truth is that even if resentment is triggered by an external object, it is not located anywhere else but in our mind. By Matthieu Ricard Object Mind Truth Resentment Triggered

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do. By Peter Mcwilliams Anger Directed Guilt Resentment

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. By Ruth Bader Ginsburg Anger Resentment Envy Reactions Selfpity

It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself. By Allen Drury Oneself Resentment

Resentment of reality can hurt more than reality By Chaitanya Charan Das Resentment Reality Hurt

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all ... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination.(Nathan to Nat) By Catherine Ryan Hyde Resent Minds Sense People Prefer

11 OVERCOMING ANGER AND HATRED By Dalai Lama Xiv Overcoming Hatred Anger

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. By Ann Landers Hanging Head Resentment Letting Despise

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams ... never for reality. By Alfred Bester Revenge Damnable Frustration Dreams Reality

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment. By Sri Chinmoy Carries Willingly Resentment Human Mind

Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime. By Debasish Mridha Anger Lifetime Fuel Resentment Burn

To resent is to brood in inaction, to pass through life acting in a manner indistinguishable from those who bear no grudges. But hatred hails from a wilder, far more violent tribe. Even when you cannot strike out, you strike nonetheless. Inward, if not outward, as if such things have direction. To hate, especially without recourse to vengeance, is to besiege yourself, to starve yourself to the point of eating your own, then to lay wreaths of blame at the feet of the accused. By R. Scott Bakker Inaction Grudges Resent Brood Pass

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness. By Ralph Marston Possibilities Life Hours Days Spend

Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency. By Frances G. Wickes Hate Unconscious Selfcomplacency Thing Fear

I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily visible of all the sinful emotions, but sorrow can enhance one's sweetness and appeal. Resentment, the empress says, is like a snake that nests in the bosom, and it can turn and strike her who harbors it. By Sena Jeter Naslund Sorrow Feel Failed Resentment Sorrowand

We are all contingent. Resentment is foolish and ungenerous, and even anger is inadequate. I am a fleck of light on the surface of the sea, a glint of light from the evening star. I live in awe. If I never lived at all, yet I am a silent wing on the wind, a bodiless voice in the forest of Albunea. I speak, but all I can say is: Go, go on. By Ursula K. Le Guin Contingent Light Albunea Resentment Ungenerous

Gratitude and resentment are brothers eternal, after all. By Joe Abercrombie Gratitude Eternal Resentment Brothers

We needed resentment, he said, as it was resentment which identified and underlined the wrong. Without these reactive attitudes, we ran the risk of diminishing our sense of right and wrong, because we could end up thinking it just doesn't matter. By Alexander Mccall Smith Wrong Resentment Needed Identified Underlined

It is better to trade your bitterness with gratefulness. By Lailah Gifty Akita Gratefulness Trade Bitterness

Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment. By Aldous Huxley Resentment Bred Shame Turn

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack. By Charlie Sheen People Resentments Yeah Work Gonna

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us. By Alana Stewart Bitterness Resenting Person Resentment Hurt

Resentment is always easier than forgiveness. By Ellen Hopkins Resentment Forgiveness Easier

there are others who are bitter and angry. By Joelle Charbonneau Angry Bitter

Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. - MALACHY MCCOURT By Katherine Crowley Resentment Die Malachy Mccourt Swallowing

Hatred is a settled anger. By Marcus Tullius Cicero Hatred Anger Settled

Joy and resentment cannot coexist. By Henri J.m. Nouwen Joy Coexist Resentment

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac. By Agatha Christie Bitterness Leads Eternal Turns Back

What is more miserable than discontent? By William Shakespeare Discontent Miserable

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. By Marshall B. Rosenberg Fulfilled Core Anger

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment. By M.j. Ryan Gratitude Resentment Antidote Bitterness

Under grudges we blame others and feel suffocated By Kishore Bansal Suffocated Grudges Blame Feel

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Hatred Burden Heavy Breast Joys

You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived. By Claudia Rankine Type Erroneously Knowledge Disappoints Begin

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. By Ambrose Bierce Hatred Superiority Sentiment Occasion

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility. By Richard Whately Feelings Envy Subdued Hostility Hostile

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. By Thomas Harris Contempt Common Emotion Recognize Named

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind. By Pindar Envy Mind Attendant Empty

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid. By Abraham Lincoln Feeling Personal Resentment Paid Thought

Hatred the only moving force, a petulant unhappy striving - childhood the only happiness, and that unknowing; then the continual battle that cannot ever possibly be won; a losing fight against ill-health - poverty for nearly all. Life is a long disease with only one termination and its last years are appalling: weak, racked by the stone, rheumatismal pains, senses going, friends, family, occupation gone, a man must pray for imbecility or a heart of stone. All under sentence of death, often ignominious,frequently agonizing: and then the unspeakable levity with which the faint chance of happiness is thrown away for some jealousy, tiff, sullenness, private vanity, mistaken sense of honour, that deadly, weak and silly notion. By Patrick O'brian Hatred Force Striving Childhood Unknowing

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives By Jerry Bridges God Bitterness Lives Arises Hearts

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment. By Niccolo Machiavelli Fear Resentment Dangerous Enemy

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. By John Henry Newman Difficult Resentment Persons

Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection. By Debasish Mridha Resentment Reflection Dwell Forget Learn

Anger held inside becomes hate. By Gary Chapman Anger Hate Held Inside

I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die By M.t. Die Resentment Poison Wait Person

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. By Jose Ortega Y Gasset Hating Existence Feeling Irritation Mere

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another. By Pasquier Quesnel Anger Condemn Approve

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. By Joseph B. Wirthlin Years Carry Burden Bitterness Resentfulness