Top 69 Quotes About Resentment Love
#1. Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
Sharon Salzberg
#2. The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love
Johnny Rich
#3. There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.
Sheri Reynolds
#4. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#5. To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.
Jonathan Lethem
#6. I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?
Diyar Harraz
#7. His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.
Kim Edwards
#8. The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#9. Isn't there anything you care about?" "All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust.
Clive Barker
#10. He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he'll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions. Once you've loved like that, the only safe haven is resentment.
Richard Powers
#11. Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
#12. This considerably softened my resentment, though it did not make me relent. I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave, and I could live without him if I chose.
Anne Bronte
#13. Love is a thing that you can't take out of you. Once it's there, it doesn't go away, no matter what. Love can morph into hate and resentment, but it will always be there, buried under the bad feelings.
Renee Carlino
#14. Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.
Sharon Salzberg
#15. Clean out your mind closet.
Clean out resentment and hatred.
Clean out regrets and secrets.
Now fill it with love, joy and respect.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
Henri Nouwen
#18. Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.
Donna Goddard
#19. You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.
Cassandra Clare
#20. It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.
J.S.B. Morse
#21. In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about,
Who might be the first I would converse with, when I am about to bite the dust?
Nishikant
#22. The Flanigan family had a love that could laugh through anything, a love that knew no color barriers or resentment.
Karen Kingsbury
#23. When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow ... and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.
Ian Curtis
#24. Love dies by steps. The footfalls of fear, resentment, anger, and spite kill love, little by little. It withers. It tarnishes. It passes away, poisoned, ill, and wounded beyond all power to heal.
Mark T. Barnes
#25. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others' generosity to their meanness. And who among us does not prefer tolerance, respect, and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment? In
Dalai Lama XIV
#26. I stopped loving my father at some point while I was a drunk. I began hating him after I became sober.
Phil Volatile
#27. Anger and resentment are the cancer of our mind.
To be cured, inject love in your heart and be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.
Lysa TerKeurst
#29. She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmosphere.
Laura Kasischke
#30. My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.
Dorothy Dunnett
#31. You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments ...
John Gray
#32. Rose quartz is said to be the stone of unconditional love. This crystal opens the heart chakra and is believed to encourage self-love and forgiveness, and to help you let go of anger, resentment, and jealousy.
Miranda Kerr
#33. The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
Jack Kornfield
#34. Left unstewarded, anger, resentment, fear, frustration - any form non-Love takes - can grow into all sorts of warfare, internal and external.
Kelly Corbet
#35. Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.
Karen Salmansohn
#36. To purify your heart use the soap of your love, forgiveness, and kindness. Every sadness, resentment, hatred will melt away.
Debasish Mridha
#38. No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.
Lord Chesterfield
#39. Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, to be at peace, to be happy and to be able to sleep at night. You don't forgive because you are weak but because you are strong enough to realize that only by giving up on resentment will you be happy.
Luminita D. Saviuc
#40. There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil: it is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, lies. The other is good: it is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed. - Cherokee proverb Spanning
Angela Stevens
#41. To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.
Maximus The Confessor
#42. Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#44. A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love.
Ruby Dee
#45. How can one know when he is stabilized in love? First, he is able to pour out his love upon others without demanding reciprocation. He can love without being loved. Second, he can meet recurrences of rejection with forgiveness. He will not react wrongly by anger, resentment or self-pity. Be
Frank Hammond
#47. All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home.
Emily March
#48. The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.
Jeanne Safer
#49. There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other's good. It's love, peace, beauty, happiness, truth, hope, joy, humility, kindness, and empathy.
"Who wins...?"
"The one you feed".
MK Asante
#50. The backside of Hollywood passion is disappointment and loneliness - and more often than not, resentment and cynicism about the nature of love itself.
Betsy and I were building more of a symphony than a pop song.
Donald Miller
#51. Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.
Napoleon Hill
#53. I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.
Marilynne Robinson
#54. A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Homer
#55. Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.
Jackson Lanzing
#56. I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. You can never win resentment with an argument - only love can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud.
Alexandra Cruz
#59. A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest
Samuel Johnson
#60. Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.
Hope Mirrlees
#61. When the waves of love, extinguish the fire of resentment, then the dawn of peace on earth will begin.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission.
Debasish Mridha
#63. But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath.
Yes. Horrible, isn't it?
N.K. Jemisin
#64. A lot of nasty things grow out of love if it isn't ... tended right. Jealousy, hate, resentment, suspicion.
J.D. Robb
#65. You are the sunshine, so raise above the clouds of anger, hate, resentment and intolerance to fill the world with beauty of love.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
#67. The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment.
C.S. Lewis
#68. I've seen too many people give up on love too fast. Walking away from relationships doesn't provide the hoped-for relief, bring solutions, or simplify life. Rather, it piles on more problems through the lingering resentment and finger-pointing.
Gary Chapman
#69. Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well.
John Bruna
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