#resentment

Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices. ↗

— Brenda Waggoner

#emotions #feelings #identity #resentment #submission

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. ↗

— Craig T. Nelson

#because #choose #compassion #give #give and take

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

#every #fancied #forward #governments #keep

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#ghosts #haunted #resentment #death

Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory. ↗

— Víctor del Árbol

#relationships #resentment #death

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#dogged #exodus #jews #metaphor #outset

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#always #among #breed #children #discipline