Katie Piper Quotes

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

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

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

It's not for me to hold any grudges or anything like that.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

But I don't hold grudges.

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

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.

I never hold a grudge.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

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

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

I don't hold grudges.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.