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Resentment is anger directed at others

• 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.   Peter McWilliams
• Resentment: A feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury. Merriam Webster Dictionary
• Anger,  Hate,  Envy,  Jealousy,  Forgiveness

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Resentment is too much past and not enough present

• All negativity is caused by 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
• As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness… then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free. Deepak Chopra
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Resentment is a poison

• Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.   Neil Kinnock
• Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Malachy McCourt
• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandela
• Living in love, gratitude and forgiveness, is peaceful and spiritually rejuvenating. Living under the emotional constraints of anger and resentment is draining and toxic to heart and soul. Jaeda DeWalt

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Resentment hurts you more than the person you resent

• Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Malachy McCourt
• Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past. Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go. Rick Warren
• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandela
• 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. Susan L. Taylor
• Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it’s not the person we’re resenting – it’s us. Alana Stewart
• Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. Norman Vincent Peale

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Resentment causes physical and mental ill health

• Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick. Alcoholics Anonymous
• In the long run, the preoccupation, hostility and resentment that we harbor serve only to hurt us, both emotionally and physically. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Joan Lunden
• Nothing on earth consumes a man more than the passion of resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Illness,  Health

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Resentment blocks love and peace

• When we live with resentment toward another our hearts close down. Letting go of our resentment frees us from placing blame on them and allows us to look toward ourself for peace. Tigress Luv
• Those who seek inner peace and clarity find that their daily lives and routines flow more easily and harmoniously. Those who get stuck in anger, resentment, and other self-sabotaging emotions and beliefs find that they tend to draw more chaos into their lives. Christin Sander
• Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. Hannah More
• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Buddha
• Love,  Inner peace

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Resentment is bad for the soul

• Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things. Marvin J. Ashton
• As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Living under the emotional constraints of anger and resentment is draining and toxic to heart and soul. Jaeda DeWalt
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Resentment is baggage that weighs you down

• Whenever you choose to carry resentment and hatred, you are shouldering an immense burden that damages your happiness, and often your health. Does it matter that your resentment and hatred are “justified?”  Only you suffer – not the person you resent.  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• Not only anxious thoughts, but also resentment, grievances, pointless complaining, guilt and regret, criticism of self and others, perpetual discontent…… are ways in which we unconsciously create suffering for ourselves. They arise in imagination (the mind). We need to recognize that these are all unnecessary baggage that brings a heaviness into our lives and strengthens a false sense of self. When you recognize their pointlessness, you can let go of them and then move through life without unnecessary baggage, enjoying the present moment, including its challenges. And so the present moment becomes your friend, and you begin to experience life as supportive, rather than hostile. This is the miracle of transformation. Eckhart Tolle
• Heaviest thing to carry — a grudge

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Resentment blocks joy

• The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment. Pema Chodron
• Joy

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Resentment causes fatigue

• Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. Dale Carnegie
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Resenting others is giving them the reins of control

• I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free. Isabel Lopez
• Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. Ann Landers
• 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. Catherine Ponder
• Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person. Kare Anderson

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Resentment comes when you keep putting the needs of another ahead of your own

• Do not do something, therefore, because you think someone else needs you. That only builds resentment. Do whatever you do as a means of deciding, declaring, creating, and experiencing who you are—and who you choose to be. Neale Donald Walsch
• If your style is passive, you may seem to be shy or overly easygoing. You tend to avoid conflict. Why is that a problem? Because the message you’re sending is that your thoughts and feelings aren’t as important as those of other people. In essence, when you’re too passive, you give others the license to disregard your wants and needs. The internal conflict that can be created by passive behavior can lead to stress, resentment, seething anger and feelings of victimization.  Mayo Clinic
• When I see others in need, I allow myself to use the illusion to express the part of myself that I choose to experience. But be clear that I never do anything for another. Everything I do I do for myself. That is because the self is all there is. In this way, there is no resentment. Neale Donald Walsch
• Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others. Stephen Covey
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Resentment comes from fulfilling your needs at the expense of another

• If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win. John Gray

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Resentment comes from frustrated expectations

• Expectations are resentments under construction. Anne Lamott
• Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. Elliott Larson
• Expectation,  Disappointment

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Resentment is a form of suffering that comes from identification with the mind

• Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind, which is to say as long as you are unconscious, physically speaking. I am talking here primarily of emotional pain, which is also the main cause of physical pain and physical disease.  Resentment, hatred, self-pity, guilt, anger, depression, jealousy, and so on, even the slightest irritation, are all forms of pain.  Eckhart Tolle
• Suffering,  Transcending the ego

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Resentment is the ego’s way of strengthening itself

• Anger or resentment strengthen the ego enormously by increasing the sense of separateness, emphasizing the otherness of others and creating a seemingly unassailable fortresslike mental position of ‘rightness.’ Eckhart Tolle
• Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. Eckhart Tolle
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Spiritual awakening is letting go of resentment

• Keeping our hearts and minds free of the debris of resentment and animosity is vital to our spiritual awakening. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Spirituality,  Letting go

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Let go of resentment through forgiveness

• Forgiveness doesn’t mean: “What you did was okay.” It simply means, “I’m no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul.” Doreen Virtue
• Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment —- allow it to be as it is —- then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time. Eckhart Tolle
• Release resentment and anger regularly after allowing yourself to feel these emotions fully. Do this by saying, “I now forgive and release [fill in the blank]. I let loose and let go, and I am free. Christiane Northrup
• Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. Lawrence G. Lovasik
• There is power in forgiveness. Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you. Take your power back from those who have hurt you. Dr Phil McGraw
• Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Roberto Assagioli
• Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. Hannah More
• Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. Dan Zadra
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Don’t let you anger turn to resentment

• Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.  Dodinsky
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Don’t let the resentment of others poison you

• A lot of people dump poison, anger, resentment and criticism. Do not take it personally.  Just smile, wave and wish them well. Joel Osteen

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Don’t let the criticism of others make you resentful

• Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends. Mike Norton
• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. Elbert Green Hubbard
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Use humour to let go of your resentment

• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain
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Resentment can be a messenger that teaches you where you’re stuck

• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are. Pema Chodron

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Talent and genius always arouses resentment

• When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others. Robert Greene
• Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. Eoin Colfer
• Talent,  Genius

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