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Resentment
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“Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.”
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“He was a man who grew fat on resentment as others did on happiness.”
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“... do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.”
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“... resentment was a justice she owed to herself. There are some offenses which it is an unworthy weakness to forget.”
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“She finally found grudges to be unwieldy things — hold those, and pretty soon you have to drop amusements to maintain your grudge grip, blow your energy on that and you may have none left for mischief.”
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“Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
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“Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.”
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“The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and — with luck — reconciliation.”
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“... not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“... a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.”
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“Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.”
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“It's queer, isn't it, how we hate people most whom we have wronged? Far more than we hate those people who have wronged us.”
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“... our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.”
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“As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff of it is bad for you.”
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“... resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.”
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“She seems to be in chronic mourning for all the relatives who have died within her memory and in a state of chronic resentment over the neglect of all those who haven't died.”
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“... holding on to resentment is like drinking poison yourself and hoping that it makes the other person sick.”
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“Politeness forbids any display of resentment. The polished surface throws back the arrow.”
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“When I feed on resentments and anger, I am giving someone else rent-free space in my head.”
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“I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.”
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“More than anything else, resentment was the death of love. It killed slowly.”