Toxic Emotions Quotes

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

Hatred is self-punishment.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health

Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.

When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.