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Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
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action
change
motivational
success
life
inspirational
living-in-the-present
grudges
seize-the-day
anger
resentment
poison
soul
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Steve Maraboli |
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"Leo lowered his screwdriver. He looked at the ceiling and shook his head like, What am I gonna do with this guy? "I try very hard to be annoying," Leo said. "Don't insult my ability to annoy. And how am I supposed to resent you if you go apologizing? I'm a lowly mechanic. You're like the prince of the sky, son of the Lord of the Universe. I'm supposed to resent you." "Lord of the Universe?" (Jason) "Sure, you're all-bam! Lightning man. And 'Watch me fly. I am the eagle that soars-" (Leo) "Shut up, Valdez." (Jason) Leo managed a little smile. "Yeah, see. I do annoy you." "I apologize for apologizing." (Jason) "Thank you." He went back to work, but the tension had eased between them. Leo still looked sad and exhausted-just not quite so angry."
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humor
resentment
apologies
jason-grace
leo-valdez
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Rick Riordan |
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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
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library
writing
bible
science
bitter
childish-beliefs
guides
invade
uneducated
unimaginative
unthinking
guide
childish
leader
leaders
imagine
ignore
home
resentment
ignorance
shame
thought
the-bible
school
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Isaac Asimov |
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I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die
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frequently-misattributed-quote
resentment
poison
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M.T. |
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Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
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people
compassion
motivational
life
inspirational
anger
resentment
grudge
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Steve Maraboli |
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Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
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feminism
resentment
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.
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resentment
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Kim Edwards |
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At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.
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fear
grudges
hiding
resentment
fears
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Donald L. Hicks |
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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.
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nausea
resentment
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William S. Burroughs |
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
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collector
fowles
john
resentment
selfishness
shame
weapons
fight
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John Fowles |
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... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or kindness. That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.
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jealousy
resentment
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all. But there was no point in being angry with him.
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jealousy
writing
resentment
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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hatred
repression
suppression
resentment
colonialism
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
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It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained.
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resentment
forgiveness
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Nadia Bolz-Weber |
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Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have kept my faith in the power of civilization to bring men back from the brink. And yet one women writes a letter, and my whole world falls to pieces. You see, she is an ordinary woman. A good one, even. That's the point ... Nothing [a recognizably bad person does] can surprise or shock me, or worry me. But she denounced Julia and sent her to her death because she resented her, and because Julia is a Jew. I thought in this simple contrast between the civilized and the barbaric, but I was wrong. It is the civilized who are the truly barbaric, and the [Nazi] Germans are merely the supreme expression of it.
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war
good
denunciation
ordinariness
pettiness
nazis
wwii
civilization
resentment
jews
evil
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Iain Pears |
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"Folks write down the name of someone who fills them with frustration, disappointment, and/or resentment, and then I propose that their person is doing the best he or she can. The responses have been wide-ranging...One woman said, "If this was true and my mother was doing the best she can, I would be grief-stricken. I'd rather be angry than sad, so it's easier to believe she's letting me down on purpose than grieve the fact that my mother is never going to be who I need her to be."
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grief
good-intentions
resentment
expectations
frustration
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Brené Brown |
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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.
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loneliness
graff
ender-wiggin
soldier
isolation
resentment
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Orson Scott Card |
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Resentment was the hinge of her personality.
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personality
personality-traits
resentment
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Colson Whitehead |
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The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.
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depression
bitterness
melancholy
resentment
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Patrick O'Brian |
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"Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home. And that happens quite easily. When I pay careful attention to what goes on in my mind from moment to moment, I come to the disconcerting discovery that there are very few moments during the day when I am really free from these dark emotions, passions and feelings. Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to me the fragility of my faith that I am the Beloved One on whom God's favor rests. I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed, that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and thereby assure myself of the love I think I need and deserve. And in so doing I move far away from my father's home and choose to dwell in a "distant country." --
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jealousy
revenge
love
rivalry
hurt
resentment
lust
father
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for one girl. The sense that every fight could be to the death.
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resentment
siblings
sisters
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Philippa Gregory |
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There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were told.
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humiliation
resentment
stories
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Azar Nafisi |
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When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and spark; there is a vivid flash and a deafening roar, but when the smoke is blown away, it is the end.
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resentment
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.
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relationships
friendship
hostility
the-black-prince
iris-murdoch
stagnant
resentment
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Iris Murdoch |
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Loving him was all interpretation, creative in its way. We barely used language at all to communicate: he sulked and thought I was putting him down if I made complicated remarks, and sometimes I felt numb at the compromise and self-suppression I submitted to. Yet beyond that it was all guesswork; we were thinking for two. The darkened air of the flat was full of the hints we made. The stupidity and the resentment were dreadful at times. But then in sex he lost his awkwardness. He shows his capacity to change as I rambled over him now with my fingertips and watched him glow and gulp with desire; his clothes seemed to shrivel off him and he lay there making his naked claim for the only certainty in his life. It wasn't something learnt, I suspected, from the guys before me who'd picked him up and fucked him and fucked him around. It was a kind of gift for giving, and while he did whatever I wanted it emerged as the most important thing there was for him. It was all the harder, then, when the resentment returned and I longed for him to go.
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sex
love
language
resentment
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Alan Hollinghurst |
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"Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them." --
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polarization
resentment
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Azar Nafisi |