Terry Waite Quotes

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

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

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

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

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.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

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.

Bitterness kills the soul.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.

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