C. S. Lewis Quotes

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

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

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

Me holding a grudge is not going to help me. It's not going to make me any better.

Being mentally strong is something I've always been very good at and sometimes you just have to dig a bit deeper.

I've learned to go out and focus on what I can control, like how hard I work and my attitude and whether I'm happy or not. I've really tried to focus on those things.

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

I don't have resentments towards anyone I played with or to the guy who bullied me in the sixth grade. I've worked through it.

Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.

Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.