Tammy > Tammy's Quotes

“It's hard to be sad when you're being useful.”
― Noah Hawley, Before the Fall

“That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“Everyone had another sort of life up their sleeve that might have made them happy.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“She accumulates stuff to insulate herself from the world,”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove that, yes, he did so say that thing he now denied?”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“Criticism is a privilege that you earn — it shouldn’t be your opening move in an interaction…”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
― Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.”
― Fred Rogers

“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”
― Lawrence G. Lovasik

“Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a good marriage, it changes, it evolves, but it does on getting better. I've seen it with my own mother and father. But a bad marriage can dissolve in a welter of resentment and acrimony. I've seen that, too, in my own miserable and disastrous attempt at making another person happy. And it's never one person's fault. It's the sum total of a thousand little irritations, disagreements, idiotic details that in a sound alliance would simply be disregarded, or forgotten in the healing act of making love. Divorce isn't a cure, it's a surgical operation, even if there are no children to consider.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, Wild Mountain Thyme

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“wasn’t sure men would ever understand the infinitely subtle weaponry women used against each other.”
― Jojo Moyes, Still Me

“He could find hatred in his heart for her, too, if he went looking for it. The secret of a happy marriage was not to go looking for it.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“... the problem with getting so much of what you wanted -you just ended up wanting more.”
― Kimberly McCreight, Friends Like These

“Giving people too much all but guarantees they'll never really love you”
― Kimberly McCreight, Friends Like These