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We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that everything is forgivable; some things are inexcusable but forgivable.

— Linda Thompson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

— Anne Lamott

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

— Joyce Meyer

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

— T. S. Eliot

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

— Arthur Helps

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

— Thandie Newton

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

— Ja Rule

Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.

— Debbie Ford

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

— Alana Stewart

✗Opposing Perspectives

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

— Edward Dahlberg

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

— Nicolas Cage