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Letter "R" » resentment
«Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.»
«My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Fatigue
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caused, fatigue, fatigued, fatigues, fatiguing, frustration, frustrations, more often than not, resentment, resentments, worry
«Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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at the same time, disarmed, disarming, disarms, gentleness, manner, resentment, steadiness
«Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.»
«I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Conformity
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communist, conformity, Country Life, resentment
«Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
corrupts, impotence, inadequacies, inadequacy, resentment, wickedness
«Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
consumes, earth, man, More, nothing, on earth, passion, quickly, resentment, resentments, Than, The Passion
«I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Compliments
| Keywords:
complaint, compliment, courteous, insured, insures, insuring, precede, reception, receptions, resentment, softens
«Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
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Disillusionment
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affects, bury, come forth, cumulative, cynicism, disappointment, disillusionment, disproportionate, embodiments, high quality, illnesses, mentality, minor, overreaction, provocation, provocations, psychosomatic, rage, reincarnation, repress, repressed, repressing, resentment, suppressed, The Embodiment, transcending, uglier, unexpressed
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