Gary Zukav Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

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 feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

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

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

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

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

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 started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.

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

I always tell myself that nothing ever is worth holding onto if it hurt you, because the longer you hold onto anger and resentment, the longer you feed it and keep it alive.

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