I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.
If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.
(imp. & p. p.) of Owe
I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was...
The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.