Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.
The problem is we bear grudges that go a thousand years into the past. Really, I could find people who begrudge the Greeks for doing awful things to the Bulgarians more than a thousand years ago.
I don't hold grudges.
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .
How easy it is to forget grudges when someone has something you need.
Basketballs dont hold grudges!
What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.
Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on
Have you any old grudges you would like to pay, Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day? -Gather them now and lay them away When Christmas comes. Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend, And life is short from beginning to end; Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend When Christmas comes.
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.
I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.
. . . if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.