A Quote by Gary Smalley

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

Gary Smalley

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Gary Smalley
American - Author
September 16, 1940 - March 6, 2016

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Joyce Meyer

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

Alice May

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Anne Lamott

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

If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.

Jaggi Vasudev

I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio, hoping somebody would get sick or get hurt and that we'd get to sub for them.

Dr. John

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Joyce Meyer

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Debbie Ford

How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.

Stefanie Schneider

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Mark Frost

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

Saint Augustine

We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we're hoping that there's far - there will be many more women in the cabinet. It appears there will be and we're hoping that will happen. And - but the ones that have been picked, by and large, we have worked with. There's a couple that we haven't, but there - they look like their bio's are great and so we're - we're pushing on.