Seth Godin Quotes

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

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

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

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.

I never hold a grudge.

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?

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

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

You can't hold a grudge against anybody; you gotta let it go.

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

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

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

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.