Tyler Perry Quotes

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

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

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

I've always hated the idea of carrying grudges and resentments around like a load of mouldy suitcases.

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

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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?

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.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

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.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.

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