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Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

Alice May

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Alice May
1847 - August 16, 1887

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Nelson Mandela

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

Debbie Ford

Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Joyce Meyer

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

Gary Smalley

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

Jodi Picoult

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Saint Augustine

I have to go," he said. "You don't understand. Someone wants to kill me. "Someone wants to kill you?" she repeated. "Well, I want to make love to you. My goodness, Julian. With two such compelling alternatives, however will you choose?

Tessa Dare

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)

T. D. Jakes

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

Gautama Buddha

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Liev Schreiber

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Ann Landers

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

Thomas Merton

It requires a lot of courage for someone to cast me in something else. I am just hoping that someone sees something else in me other than comedy.

Chunky Pandey

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

Robin Wasserman

I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that—I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

Cassandra Clare

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

Thomas Sowell

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