Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: resentment jealousy self-esteem self-confidence

If there's bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.
Yiddish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: anger bitterness attitude resentment jealousy

Anger is a short madness.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: anger character forgiveness resentment grudge

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 Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: resentment grudge forgiveness feelings stress anger

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: attitude grudge anger mad resentment unforgiving forgiveness

Hate starts as an anger that doesn't get resolved. Then it becomes a resentment, and then a true hatred that can go on indefinitely...hatred causes serious damage over time. Haters can't let go or get on with life. They become bitter and frustrated. Their lives become mean, small, and narrow.
Ron Potter-Efron, MSW, and Pat Potter-Efron, MS Letting Go of Anger
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Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorrow, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our day upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place to be quickly reconciled.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt Treasury of Women's Quotations
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13 Holy Bible
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Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgement, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
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