Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide. (Douglas V. Steere)

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. (Booker T. Washington)

Do not judge and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned, forgive, and you will be forgiven. (Bible, Luke 6:37)

Without forgiveness, life is governed.....by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. (Robert Assaglioli)

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget. (Thomas Szasz)

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry. (Anonymous)

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. (Horace Bushnell)

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Alexander Pope)

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth will make the whole world blind and toothless. (Mahatma Gandhi)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Whoever suppresses his anger, when he has in his power to show it, God will give him a great reward. (Prophet Muhammad)

He is not strong and powerful, who throws people down, but he is strong who withholds himself from anger. (Prophet Muhammad)

Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. (Buddha)

Keep yourselves far from envy, because it eats up and takes away good actions, like the fire that eats up and burns wood. (Prophet Muhammad)

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind. (Leonardo Da Vinci)

Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. (Booker T. Washington)

Winners never quit and quitters never win. (Anonymous)

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force… My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. (Elaine Maxwell)