Alana Stewart Quotes

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

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."

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.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

Being down makes you think who you are.

I don't like to hold on to anger. It eats you up alive.

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

Bitterness kills the soul.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.

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