William P. Young Quotes

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?'

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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.

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.

We can look at the pain in our lives. We can look at the way we have been mistreated, and we can have an attitude of, I will never amount to anything. I have been wrong about people all my life. I am going to pay somebody back for this.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Some people would rather dig fresh graves than heal old wounds.

I will always forgive but I will never forget.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.