Mitch Albom Quotes

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

Don’t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.” “I hate you, too.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142

Often does hatred hurt itself.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

Hate today, no love for tomorrow

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man. When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could feel. He wanted them dead, tortured, even. He wanted Chuck to be happy. But happiness had been ripped form their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.

The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Hatred makes us all ugly.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]