Tina Knowles Quotes

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

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

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

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.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.

I stopped hating people. I also tried to see the positives in negative situations that I found myself in.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

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

I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

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.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

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.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

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.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.