Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

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

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

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.

I hate holding grudges.

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

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

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.