When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.

Steve Maraboli
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When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet. For example, if a person is angry at another person but they are not the one who did the wrong, then that person will not get any satisfaction from that other person’s sorrow. In other words, when you hold a grudge, you don’t want to be happy for the other person because it means they have moved past you and have forgiven you. It means they have forgiven you for being a jerk!

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections On Life And The Human Experience

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