Anne Lamott Quotes

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

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

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

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

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

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.

If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.

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

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

Bitterness kills the soul.

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

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

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

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

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

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

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

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?

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

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

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

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.

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.