Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Interpretation
Holding onto past grievances diminishes your worth and prevents personal growth.
This quote highlights the detrimental effects of harboring grudges and seeking revenge. It suggests that continually measuring one's worth against past conflicts or comparing oneself to others leads to a lesser version of oneself, inhibiting personal development and emotional well-being.
In practice
During a discussion on personal growth, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of letting go of past grievances.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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