Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes

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.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

I hate that word dysfunction.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

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

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

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

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.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

Simmering resentment saps energy.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

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

I am growing meaner by the hour.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.