Richard Paul Evans Quotes

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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

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

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

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

We can look at the pain in our lives. We can look at the way we have been mistreated, and we can have an attitude of, I will never amount to anything. I have been wrong about people all my life. I am going to pay somebody back for this.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

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

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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

Some people would rather dig fresh graves than heal old wounds.

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.