Toxic Feelings Quotes

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

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.'

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

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

Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

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

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

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

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

It's not healthy to be jealous.

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it's so hard.

If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.

Envy is a surefire party killer.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.