Rex Chapman Quotes

Without anyone's help, Darth Maul will only commit himself to his mistakes of the past. Every time we find this character, he is living in the past and in some cases he is living with the dead. This character is desperate and he needs Obi-Wan's help to move on.

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.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

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

Me holding a grudge is not going to help me. It's not going to make me any better.

Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.