Robert Forster Quotes

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.

I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

I never hold a grudge.

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.