poisonous thoughts Quotes

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.’ He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. ‘I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me