updated 4mo ago
- “Resentment is like taking poison and hoping that someone else will die.”
from Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’ by Helen Garner
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This is what resentment is: self-inflicted suffering with the emotional poison we wish for another.
from The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom (Toltec Mastery Series) by don Miguel Ruiz
Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego. Resentment means to feel bitter, indignant, aggrieved, or offended.
from A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans by Eckhart Tolle