Steve Burns Quotes

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

I still got the nasty in me.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

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

Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

People find pleasure in hating someone. I think it's the beginning of kali. If someone has betrayed you, it's understandable that you hate them. But hating someone you don't even know... that's something I will never understand.

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.

I am not a man who wants revenge.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb.

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.