Holding a grudge
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life inspirational compassion people anger resentment grudge
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.
Tags: wwii evil war civilization good resentment jews nazis barbarism ordinariness pettiness denunciation
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.
Tags: humor resentment apologies annoying leo-valdez jason-grace
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.
Shannon L. AlderTags: pain self-esteem retaliation revenge change heart sorrow jealousy self-worth self-help anger self-hatred games cruelty depression resentment envy spiritual-growth unkindness damage caring-too-much dismissing hurting-others ignoring not-caring rejecting seeking-revenge self-abuse vengance
Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.
Shannon L. AlderTags: wounds time hurt forgiveness waiting healing resentment timing wondering battles closure fights not-letting-go ignored lack-of-communication living-with-pain not-forgetting not-knowing unresolved-issues
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 NortonTags: truth friend friendship need resentment sisterhood envy brotherhood brother sister
The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.
Mike NortonTags: truth friend friendship need resentment sisterhood envy brotherhood brother sister
Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory.
Víctor del ÁrbolTags: relationships feelings resentment
Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.
Hope MirrleesTags: pride resentment
The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.
MacDonald HarrisTags: identity resentment
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