Brian Banks Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

I never hold a grudge.

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.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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.

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

I always tell myself that nothing ever is worth holding onto if it hurt you, because the longer you hold onto anger and resentment, the longer you feed it and keep it alive.

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.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

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

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

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

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.