"[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible.
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“It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.”
“Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
More on Resentment
“Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.”
“In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.”
“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”