A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.
Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
Envy is a declaration of inferiority.
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.
What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.
You do feel bad when things don't work. But you cannot succeed without failing. It goes hand-in-hand.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'
