quotes:
“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
~ St. Augustine (354-430)
“No Scientific Christian ever considers hatred or execration to be ‘justifiable’ in any circumstances, but whatever your opinion about that might be, there is no question about its practical consequences to you. You might as well swallow a dose of prussic acid in two gulps, and think to protect yourself by saying, ‘This one is for Robespierre; and this one for the Bristol murderer.’ You will hardly have any doubt as to who will receive the benefit of the poison.”
~ The Sermon on the Mount (1938) by Emmet Fox—a text that later became popular with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), where the saying was disseminated widely.
In 2003, American actress and author Carrie Fisher wrote: “She’d worked so hard to turn her boiling grudge against Leland down to a low-simmering ache. It was best put by what she’d heard someone in AA say a few years back: ‘Resentment is like drinking a poison and then waiting for the other person to die.’”
Fisher repeated the quote in 2008 in her book Wishful Drinking.
“In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
~ Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (1999)
"Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done, or putting a false label on an evil act. It means rather that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
~ Lewis B. Smedes
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
~ Buddha in the Suttas (Buddhist scriptures)
many of these quotes are from
https://www.quora.com/Who-said-holding-a-grudge-is-like-drinking-poison-and-waiting-for-the-other-person-to-die
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