This quote means to me, that if you were to be angry and hold a grudge, that you will not expand outside your boundaries and you will be "smaller." It goes the other way too. If you decide to be forgiving of a situation, you are forcing yourself to tolerate the things you wouldn't before. You expand outside your boundaries and give other people a chance. This is a good life skill that I think everyone should have, including me. Now that we are living through tough economic times, it is needed now more than ever. Overall, it shows that more respectable people who are willing to forgive, are probably going to go farther in life, and it makes life better for other people.
This quote is deffinetly true. If you didn't forgive someone then you would not grow to the point where you learn from it. For example, lets say my sister took my ipod without my permission. All she wanted to do was look up the name of one of my songs, but she left it on floor by her bed. I came into our room and found our dog chewing it. I went to my sister and just started yelling at her, when she said she was sorry I just ignored her. Lets say I didn't forgive her, even though I was almost 100% sure she didn't mean to leave it on the floor, I would just be holding myself back from growing to see the point that accidents happen. If I forgave her, then I would be learning that even when bad things happen, you shouldn't get over mad because in the end you will probably find out that you tend to do the same thing some times. Stuff happens, there's no use to hold on too something that has already happened. You can either make the most of it and learn to move on, or take it personally and regret it.
This obviously means that when you forgive someone you become a bigger person. On the other hand when you react in anger you become a little person. When you forgive someone you also have this sense of good doing. It is a good idea to forgive someone because what would you want the other person to do, get mad or accept it? A couple of years ago I did something really stupid and my mom got very angry, but then she forgave me. Would that still make her a small person or would she be a big person? I hope that from now reading this quote that I can forgive people.
In my opinion this quotes means that it takes a lot to long beyond anger and forgive someone. We have all in our lifetime had to get beyond the anger and forgive someone even though we felt that we were not in the wrong. Finding forgiveness allows us to get beyond the anger and move on. By being able to forgive makes us less unhappy and able to grow in life. If we chose to carry anger within us, we remain a smaller person and fail to expound on our life skills. I get angry at my parents sometimes, however, if I chose to hold this anger, and not realize that my parents only have my best interests in mind, I will not continue to grow and earn bigger responsibilities in life.
What I think this quote means is that it is easier to be angry than forgiving people. Also your a bigger person when you forgive someone. When you are angry it is a lot harder to forgive someone because you don't know how to apologize to someone because you are angry all the time. Learning to forgive makes you a happier person. Being angry makes you a sad and lonely person. People that are willing to forgive people and are happy will go far in life. People that are angry all the time will not. Katherine Walsh 6th hour
This quote to me means that when you hold anger in or just have anger towards someone you can't grow as a person. But if you forgive someone and not get mad then you can learn to forgive people. And if you can learn to forgive you can grow as a person by being able to tolerate things and not getting mad when you don't like something. Personally, I think that everyone should be able to forgive people, its an important life skill to have. Because every can get angry but its important to be able to forgive people. When your older and have a boss you don't really like you have to be able to just be able to forgive them or not let them get to you. Overall I just think that being able to forgive people easily is important so you can grow as a person and help you get along better with others.
To me, this quote is saying not to hold grudges and to allow forgivness. Basically, its saying that if you stay angry at someone and hold a grudge, it oly makes you a smaller person. Where as, forgiving someone makes you the better or bigger person. This is a great life lesson. Because everyone should always forgive someone over time. This is forcing you to be the better person and to grow beyond what you are as a person. Allowing yourself to forgive someone shows that you are going to go farther throughout life, and ultimetly be the bigger person.
Mr. Kay, The quote,"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were" can mean a couple of things. The first that comes to mind is that with something like anger, you don't take anything away from it. You just get pissed and that's it. Whereas if you forgive, your able to comprehend the situation and further learn about conflicts in the future. It's like that history saying, "If you don't learn from the past, you'll need to repeat it. If you have a conflict and you don't learn anything from it, then you'll be getting angry every time said conflict comes up. Another thing this quote could mean is literally in the confrontation. It could mean that if a conflict comes up and you react negatively to it, the you are the smaller person in the fight. You could be the big person in the conflict by just forgiving what has been done. This is what I think the quote means.
Anger doesn't benifit you in anyway. it only makes you less of a person. it does you no good to be mad at someone forever and never put down your grudge. it does make sense that if they did something that made you mad you can be angry for awhile. however, Cherie Scott is trying to say we should forgive them. sometimes it might be hard but it always seems to end up better. like if you weren't friends with someone anymore because of something they did, you are mad for awhile. we just have to relize that mabey we could forgive that person for whatever they did even if you still hurt. you could end up with a friend again and you would grow as a person.
I think this quote means that rather then being angry with people you should forgive them. You should always be there for your friends no matter what. When you stay mad at people it just makes you seem like the smaller person. When you forgive people you are the bigger person and you have a friend forever. It also shows that you know how to move on and not hold a grudge. Everybody desirvies to be forgiven, or get another chance no matter who they are. I can never stay mad at my friends i always forgive them. I feel to bad when i stay mad at them.
You're anger makes you hate more and more of the things around you. And forgiving past wrongs can make you accept what you might have never even aknowledged.
I was wronged many times, and it made me grow to hate things. I was bullied and 'punished' by a girl; I now hate girls that act like her. I was used and abused by past boyfriends; I've learned to be cautious, and don't appreciate men like they were. I was punished for something I didn't do, and therefore try to get others in trouble for their wrongdoings that others "don't notice".
I am a girl on a mission. I have not learned forgivness yet. So watch out. >:)
"Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of themself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant: "If I die, you are forgiven, If I live, I will kill you." Such is the Rule of Honor."-OMERTA lyrics from Lamb of God(a metal band)
5th This quote by Cherie (ha) Carter Scott means that one cannot grow as a person from anger. Anger has no positive aspects, and it doesn't lead to a positive solution. If you are angry with someone, it is easier to be mad at them than to forgive them. It is difficult to forgive someone who has made you angry or upset. In the end, you are also suffering when you do not forgive them. You may ruin the relationship with the person, and regret it in the future. Forgiveness makes you step out of what you are comfortable of. It allows you to grow as a person because you learn to give a second chance. Someday you may want that favor returned, because everyone makes mistakes.
What i think this quote means is that if you are mad your not gonna go anywhere. But if you forgive and forget easily, then you will move on. If you forgive someone then you are telling your self that you can tolerate more things. You'll be more easy going about things. instead of being all up tight about it. People who are willing to forgive someone will move on in like farther. Rather than the ones that hold grudges.
many people would say anger makes you weaker. its that way becuase when youre angry your more explosive and uncontrolable of your reactions. for many people controling their ager is a serious problem. id think the best way to handle a prblem is to deal with it when your calm. when youcan think rationally about it and make the right decision. this quote reminds me of the on we had a day or two ago becuase it expresses the same motive of a persons actions and how they can impact a situation. in the later part of the quote, the author talks about forgivness and how it forces you to grow. i think of that to be like learning from your mistakes.
To me this quote means that life is two short to be angry with anyone. If you were to be angry with someone, what is that going to prove to anyone? Also, who will it prove to? Personally, I believe being angry with someone is a waste of your breathe. You only get to live once. I do agree with this quote, when you are angry with someone you do get smaller. However, when you are happy and full of life, you do expand. Your open to everything and everyone, always with a positive attitude. Yes, everyone gets mad, at times but they should never hold a grudge against someone for to long. People need to be able to relinquish.
This is such a simplistic quote, I'm going to have to bullcrap my way to seven sentences. Anger is a frowned upon emotion of humanity, it is often characterize as 'child-like', so this is what smaller might be. As to forgiveness, a 'mature' trait might force you to become bigger. Well...that's all I got. I can't think of any more thoughts of this quote. Well guess what, I just bull crap my way to seven sentences now.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." Cherie Carter Scott
To me this quote means two things. One, that being angry at someone doesn't make things better. All it does is make things worse. And two, that when you're nice to somebody, or forgive them, you move on and forget about it. For example, today at lunch I was sitting there just eating my lunch and a bunch of freshmen come and sit at the table. Now at first I didn't care because I had a headache and when I have a headache I don't care about anything unless it bothers me. Well one of the freshies started "dancing" to the music they were playing in the cafeteria. Of course while he was "dancing" he was bumping the table and causing my headache to get worse then what it was. Least to say I wasn't happy. So I yelled at him and told him a few of my more beautifully colored words if you know what I mean. Of course he got mad at me when obviously he was the reason why I said those wonderful words. Point being, me saying those things didn't make the matter better, just worse.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Mr. Kay,
What this quote is saying is that ig you hold a grudge against someone, you are maing yourself look bad. If you hold a grudge, you are becoming smaller. But if you forgive, you are turning over a new leaf, and starting over. This makes you grow as a person, and in return, makes you a stronger person. If you forgive, you discover new things about yourself. You also learn new things about others that you might not have known if you would have held that grudge. In doign this, it makes your life much more simple, and less stressful. It is a win win for everyone around you.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
I think this quote means that holding too much anger in will waste your energy and actually make you the weaker person. While forgiving people and not letting things get to you will make you happier. Sorry Mr. Kay I'm not really in a good mood and I just want to go outside or something. I'll re-do this blog when I'm happier...
If you use anger to accomplish your things it does not let you grow as a true good person. Though it is a part of human nature we can ignore it so we can better our self. Anger doesn't benefit you in anyway. Preventing grudges and prejudges to make things worse in our life bettering our growth. Hate is like a weed. It grows and continues to grow and blocks out the sun a makes the other plants shrivels up. Forgiveness lets you grow. It strengthens bonds between family and friends. You forgive what they have done to you it will make you and the person feel better and stronger relationship. Love heals all wounds left emotionally.
This quote is alot like the one that says "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger." If you have to work past things of your level of ability it makes you grow as a person. If you hold a grudge your not going anywhere with anything. But if you forgive and overcome your problems they will get past it and there relationship will become stronger. Me and my friends often get into arguments. But when we get into these arguments we usually just fight it out and the next day we have respect for each other and forgive each other and move on. All friends have arguments but if they didn't forgive, no one would have friends.
This quote means to me that if you get anger at someone than you are hurting yourself by holding yourself back from aceptness. If you do not forgive someone then you never will get to know the person better and thats one less person you are freinds with. But if you forgive then you grow beacause you are you learn to tolerate things. By forgiveness you do not hold a grudge and you may befit from that person latter on. The growing that takes place that you are forced to have beyond were you where beacause you are learning to accept someone or somethin. You also have a better quality of life by forgiving rather than thinking about you move on to somthing new. Growing makes you stronger and a better perosn in all acpects of life, and as long as you countuie growing you will always be improving.
This quote could mean a lot. I think it means that when your angry it will just bring you down. It makes you a smaller person. No one really wants to be around someone who is angry all the time. There no fun when there like that. you wont get anywhere being angry. But people who are happy will seem to grow as a better person. Grow faster, and be more mature. When you happy you seem to have a better time in life. You enjoy things to the fullist. You dont really have to worrie about anything if you just stay positive and happy.
This quote means that if you forgive someone, you "grow" and become the bigger person. Whenever something goes bad its always easier to be angry at the person. When you forgive them, you are overcoming anger, which shows maturity. By doing this you are "killing them with kindness" as they say. It is always difficult to forgive someone who has made you upset. Its a natural reaction to become angry and frustrated with the person. That is why you grow as a person when you can see past that and forgive someone. Nothing good comes from anger. You don't learn anything. I don't really follow this quote to well because I get pissed really easily sometimes. I sometimes have a hard time forgiving people, but I don't hold grudges.
This quote means to me, that if you were angery all the time and didnt do anything about it you would be smaller. You would hold all your agression in and thats what would hurt you. It would be the same as forgiveness. If you forgave somebody you would force yourself to grow. You would do things that you havent done before. I think that people you forgive other people will go farther in life and will make life better for them. Always express your feelings. If you dont the anger will make you smaller and forgving will do you better.
Holding something against someone for a long time really shows you are acting immature. By forgiving someone, it shows that you are acting more like an adult. People view you differently if you hold a grudge. This quote refers to this by saying that you're getting smaller. However when you are will to forgive someone it shows you are willing to go outside of your comfort zone. This helps you react to future situations and allows you to deal with them much better. Expanding your boundaries is something you'll have to do for the rest of your life. Learning how to expand by dealing with conflicts is one of the most important ways. People will make you mad your entire life and if you hold grudges nobody will want you as a worker or will they like you. Everyone makes mistakes and your not perfect so you can't hold them to extremely high standards. I need to work on this too because I hold grudges a lot of the time. However I am getting better at forgiving people and forgetting about the whole situation altogether.
This quote shows how when problems arise, we can choose to become angry or give forgiveness, and that choice shapes you as a person. We are presented with opportunities to grow as individuals when situations do not go our way or we get in a fight with somone. If we choose to get angry, nothing is accomplished or learned. Our character becomes "smaller" as Scott says. Forgiveness, though, pushes us to accept the situation and move on. It is difficult to truly forgive, and every time that we do, we grow as people. Becoming angry is the easy thing to do in the beginning. If we step back from the problem and think it through though, forgiveness is actually easier in the long run. For example, if you have a fight with your best friend and stay angry with them, you may be damaging your relationship in the long run. If you forgive them, you can go back to being friends and learn from the fight. We should always pick forgiveness over anger, no matter how difficult it may seem at first.
What this quote means to me is that when you get angry you tend to at alittle immutre. Anger doesnt make you look any older. Some people think that it shows some maturaty. But here is a reality check it doesnt. It is always easier to forget. But a really grown up person would frogive. I think that it is not easy to forgive. People think that it is just so easy to say " I forgive you." Most of the time when people say that they dont really forgive them. That is how we were raised. That is how we a people were trained.
I think it takes more strength to forgive someone than to hold a grude. By overcomeing your anger, you gain strength. This strength is what it means by growing. When you are angry at someone, it wastes a whole bunch of time and energy that you could put to something constructive. If we all learn to forgive, the world would be a better place. When you forgive, you learn how to take things in stride. People will respect a person if they are mature and forgiving, then someone who acts like a high school girl, creating drama. When you get respect, you will defiantly get farther in life. People will look up to you and listen to what you have to say. Kristen Pauly 6th hr.
When you hold a grduge, you cant move foward with whom your mad at. When you forgive someone, your a better person then you first were. Being angry for a long time doesnt get you anywhere. If anything, your hurting yourself too. Forgiveness shows that your mature and know that lifes too short to hold a grudge. Even if you dont want to forgive someone for what they did, you know if you do, you will be a better person in the long run. Anywho, it takes bllas to forgive someone for something horrible that they did, but then you become familiar with your boundries and how you can strech them.
I think this quote means that when you get angry with one of your bestfriends lets just say it makes you look dumb and immature. The person might think that too, so even if they were being the bad guy you would look worse then them. If you dwelled on the bad thing then you wont go the step ahead but if you forgive a person you are still friends and you went s step forward and the prolem is solved. This makes you seem like your older and you know how to handle things better..the main thing on this is that you should try to always to forgive your friends because are more important then dumb fights. A friend should never not be friends just becaouse of a little fight, i think that i always will have my bestfriends cuz they understand that friendship is so important.
When you are always mad, it makes you a person that doesnt grow, or become someone that someone looks up to. Angry people keep to themself nd dont show others who they really are. All angry people show others, is this rude side that everyone hates. When your angry at the world, it brings you down, and can lead you to suicide. But when you forgive, you show others that you can move on from things, and be a good person. It shows that you understand that people make mistakes, but you can always forgive. When you forgive, it makes you feel better inside. It makes it so you don have to hold a grudge against anyone anymore.
Think this quote expresses that you grow with every time you forgive. When you remain angry you don't recognize the other persons view or reasoning. When you forgive someone, you start to have a better understanding for why people do certain things. One of the hardest things to do is forgive someone. I think its because our pride has been betrayed, and we lose trust in the other person. But life is about growing it's about giving second chances to people. life's about forgiving and not forgetting.
I believe this quote means that you shouldnt let people get to you because once you do you tend to becone a weak and smaller person. While gorgiving someone and not holding onto your grunges will take you places and give you things you have always wanted. If your the kind of person that doesnt hold onto things you will become more successful and have way more fun. Now on the other hand if your the kind of person that holds onto everything you will just fall deeper and deeper into the hole.
Mr.Kay, This quote means that becomeing angry only makes you the smaller person. Or in other words when someone does something that makes you made, becomeing angry only proves that they are getting to you. But when you chose to forgive your proveing to yourself and others that you decide how you feel not everybody else. I think that when you forgive you grow in the sense of learninng. You learn how to react whith certain problems and you learn that everybody has their own opinions and ways of doing something. I completely agree with this quote. I feel that when you are angry the only way your going to feel any better is if you simply forgive.
Megan Fraser 5th hour I think this quote means that holding anger inside is a bad thing. If you do that, it is kind of like remembering it and holding a grudge and then you won't get past it. But if you forgive someone you can move on and grow in your relationship with them. Forgiveness kind of makes you the "bigger person". Then you can also move on with life and realize bigger dreams instead of dwelling on your anger from the past. People that forgive will probably get farther in life and be overall happy people. People that hold anger in won't be like that. It is a good lesson for people to learn and the world would probably be better if people could forgive each other.
To me this qoute means that to be mad at someone isn't betering your self. You have to forgive the person to make your self feel beter. When you forgive someone it shows that you are a better person, but when you keep that anger held in it just eats away at you. Just keeping that anger all bottled up just makes you angry and you are always in a bad mood. But when you let it go by forgiving the person you don't have to worry about it any more. Also when you forgive someone you are making that person feel better. You aren't making them worried that they did something wrong. Over all forgiveness is better for everone. Chris Reid 6th hour
I think this quote means that when you dont forgive someone your forced to stay in the same place. When you hold grudges you dont grow because you constanltly go back to what you where. Forgiveness allows you too grow because you open up. If you never forgive someone you cannot grow as a person because you always have that in your heart like i wonder what it would be like if i forgave them. It makes you feel better when you forgive someone because you can move on with your life and forget about things that you want to go away. I think it takes bigger people too forgive someone and smaller people to hold grudges.
I think that being angry does make you smaller in a sense. If you stay angry all the time you won't expand and make new friends. People hold grudges all the time, never letting anything go. On the other hand if you forgive people you are willing to grow and make new friends. Its good to be forgiveful and forget about aggravating situations because its not worth it to get all bent out of shape. Its good to be forgivefull because you need to give people second chances. This also goes the other way around, someday you are going to want to be forgived for something. You need to have an open mind and grow as a person. Jordan Blanzy 6th
This quote to me means that is you stay angry at something you will get more and more distant from that and get "smaller". This can go the opposite direction to. If you forgive something you can get more close to it and "grow". Also, depending on what you do, forgive or be angry, dicides on how you are. In other words it some what shapes who you are. That then can effect whether or not another person will talk to you. For example if you get really mad because you don't get a pencil back, someone could be afriad to ask you and never want to talk to you. Last main thing is being angry only hurts you and others around you as a person.
I thin it means if your angry you constantly keep to yourself. If you are forgive full you are open to other people and their opinions. Like if you were to be angry at one friend and stay angry you might lose them a as friend. If you are forgive full of what they have done. You can keep a friendship with them and maybe meet more of their friends and expand your group of people you know. It shows that you might want to be more nice and forgive full and open to people. Opposed to being annoyed and angry with them.
Anger makes you smaller because you hold a grudge against someone or are mad at something. I say this because you can't expand and let things get to you. Most things are not worth fighting for and cause to many problems. To forgive shows you have a tolorance to things. Forgiveness helps you be a better person overall. Being angry is a big waste of time in my opinion. If you never forgive someone it might just happen in return for yourself. Forgiveness should always be tought so the world is a better place.
ANger controls actions, thoughts, and everything about a person. Anger can take over your mind and make you become "little" and somehting you never wanted to be. If you can be angry, but forgive and forget, you grow as a person. By forgiving people you learn acceptance and begin to lose anger. If you hold a grudge you never grow as a person because your stuck to be angry about things in the past. Forgivness gives you the ability to grow as a person and lose you anger inside.
This means that anger makes you weak. It makes you vunlerable, because that is your weak spot. While being able to get over anger helps you grow. It helps you grow because whatever you were angry about you move on from it. You grow from the expierence of just letting go. Forgivness makes you stronger in your values and helps you just relax. Your always going to be hurt from expierences but by leting go you have room to grow. When you grow your expanding the way you see the world.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
This quote means that if you stay angry at someone you become lesser of a person. If you forgive someone, you grow up, move on, and become a better person. These are words everyone should live by. If you don't forgive people you stay mean and angry and it starts to carry over to other people and other situations. Forgiving is not always easy. I think even if you forgive you don't have to forget. When you forgive someone you can focus on other things.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." Cherie Carter Scott
When we were kids, there were a lot of things that we couldn't understand; therefore, we used to get easily angry when we see things different than us, since the anger comes from disability of understanding. As we grow up, however, we get to be more capable of different cultures, ideas, appearance, and so other differences. I, and, call it process of growth. If things, seen on us, are the symbols of being a mature person, such as capacity of differences, it means we've become more grown up. In the contrast, if you can't understand, nor embrace different ideas or cultures, you're just on a state of the immature and "a frog in the well." But we should remeber this; anger is to be exploded only toward the injustice on your judgment, and forgiveness is to bloom only for the weakers.
I think this quote is saying that doing wrong makes you feel less of yourself. Which in the long run will make you less of the person you were when you did that wrong. Doing rights makes you feel better about your self. When you forgive someone it doesn't just help your sefl, it also helps the person that you are forgiving. There fore it creates less grief between one another. Once you do good things and feel good about your self you will grow as a person and do more things because you have more self confidence. All in all, this quote is saying that anger brings your self confidence down, as for forgivness and doing good things makes you have a confidence boost and you will be a better person than who you were before. Zack Ruffin 5th
anger makes you smaller in the fact that your not helping yourself, in any means, by yelling or shouting at the top of your lungs. i had actually told me dad yesterday, that if he keeps yelling at me when i was helping, i told him i would walk away. his anger would have made himself a smaller workforce. ironic as it is, i really have a thing where i hate when people yell at me when they asked for my help. walking away from that side note, forgiving does have a sense of satisfaction, that nothing else gives off. in my 16 years here, i have definitely screwed up, with friends, with crushes, with strangers, and so many others. but when i grow the courage to say i fucked up, right to there face; well sometimes it comes in handy. a lot of the time, those people then end up helping you out later on. but, to summon that courage takes more of us than what we know, and truly than what we will ever, or should ever know about ourselves. although very contradictory, i do not think anyone wants to truly know who they are, at times, because when we know so much about ourselves, we scrutinize every little thing. that ends up being bad.
to summarze this scutlebutt, do not anger those who you have affection for, because in the end, even though you may have a beter relationship after apologies, it is so much easier just to be truthful and happy to everyone.
Uh i know i'm late, i wasn't home friday or saturday.
Anger only makes you one dimensional. Anger forces you to only think about the one thing that is bothering you, and not what is important. And what's important is forgiveness. Forgiving someone shows that you are becoming a better person. It shows that nothing can stop you from being who you are and this forces you to become more mature, thus it helps you grow. Anger can also hold you back from maybe being friends with someone. If you are mad and never forgive someone or a group of people, then you never know how your relationship with those people will be near the end. Also you never know why people do things, if someone does something accidently and you hold a grudge, it could be bad because the person didn't mean it.
I find this quote to fit me very much. This is because when i play sports such as golf. I might have a bad shot and instead of forgiving it, i let it get to my head. Same with hockey. My dad will yell at me when i am playing to try to motivate me to get better, but instead i take it as a negative and let it get to me. My coaches have always told me one thing, You conner are your own worst enemy. They always tell me that im a good athlete but its the head that gets to you. Such as when you miss a put or miss a breakaway, put to the side and get it back.
Anger holds you back. Anger can also make you move a step back in the progression of life. If you do something out of anger that is so bad you get sent to jail, your progression in life stops until you get out. I do however believe that you can sit and think and learn while in jail but you will not absorb as many things like you would in the real world. When you forgive someone it moves you a step forward. Forgiveness I think, is essential to life. We all make mistakes and we all need to be forgiven or forgive someone else at one point in our life. If we do not forgive we hold a grudge and that reverts us back top anger.
i feel this quote means you shouldnt be mad at people because it doesnt help you. it can only hurt you it may make you feel better for a couple days. In the long run it wont help you out at all. Only because you'll always regret that instant. If you were to forgive that person. Maybe just forgive yourself for something you have done. Not get mad at yourself or at other people. Maybe if you didnt keep a promise just for give yourself and move on. Really it makes you a better person in the long run i feel.
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This quote means to me, that if you were to be angry and hold a grudge, that you will not expand outside your boundaries and you will be "smaller." It goes the other way too. If you decide to be forgiving of a situation, you are forcing yourself to tolerate the things you wouldn't before. You expand outside your boundaries and give other people a chance. This is a good life skill that I think everyone should have, including me. Now that we are living through tough economic times, it is needed now more than ever. Overall, it shows that more respectable people who are willing to forgive, are probably going to go farther in life, and it makes life better for other people.
Mr. Kay,
This quote is deffinetly true. If you didn't forgive someone then you would not grow to the point where you learn from it. For example, lets say my sister took my ipod without my permission. All she wanted to do was look up the name of one of my songs, but she left it on floor by her bed. I came into our room and found our dog chewing it. I went to my sister and just started yelling at her, when she said she was sorry I just ignored her. Lets say I didn't forgive her, even though I was almost 100% sure she didn't mean to leave it on the floor, I would just be holding myself back from growing to see the point that accidents happen. If I forgave her, then I would be learning that even when bad things happen, you shouldn't get over mad because in the end you will probably find out that you tend to do the same thing some times. Stuff happens, there's no use to hold on too something that has already happened. You can either make the most of it and learn to move on, or take it personally and regret it.
Danielle Turner
This obviously means that when you forgive someone you become a bigger person. On the other hand when you react in anger you become a little person. When you forgive someone you also have this sense of good doing. It is a good idea to forgive someone because what would you want the other person to do, get mad or accept it? A couple of years ago I did something really stupid and my mom got very angry, but then she forgave me. Would that still make her a small person or would she be a big person? I hope that from now reading this quote that I can forgive people.
Samantha Casteel
5th hour
In my opinion this quotes means that it takes a lot to long beyond anger and forgive someone. We have all in our lifetime had to get beyond the anger and forgive someone even though we felt that we were not in the wrong. Finding forgiveness allows us to get beyond the anger and move on. By being able to forgive makes us less unhappy and able to grow in life. If we chose to carry anger within us, we remain a smaller person and fail to expound on our life skills. I get angry at my parents sometimes, however, if I chose to hold this anger, and not realize that my parents only have my best interests in mind, I will not continue to grow and earn bigger responsibilities in life.
What I think this quote means is that it is easier to be angry than forgiving people. Also your a bigger person when you forgive someone. When you are angry it is a lot harder to forgive someone because you don't know how to apologize to someone because you are angry all the time. Learning to forgive makes you a happier person. Being angry makes you a sad and lonely person. People that are willing to forgive people and are happy will go far in life. People that are angry all the time will not.
Katherine Walsh
6th hour
This quote to me means that when you hold anger in or just have anger towards someone you can't grow as a person. But if you forgive someone and not get mad then you can learn to forgive people. And if you can learn to forgive you can grow as a person by being able to tolerate things and not getting mad when you don't like something. Personally, I think that everyone should be able to forgive people, its an important life skill to have. Because every can get angry but its important to be able to forgive people. When your older and have a boss you don't really like you have to be able to just be able to forgive them or not let them get to you. Overall I just think that being able to forgive people easily is important so you can grow as a person and help you get along better with others.
Hannah Aittama
5th Hour
To me, this quote is saying not to hold grudges and to allow forgivness. Basically, its saying that if you stay angry at someone and hold a grudge, it oly makes you a smaller person. Where as, forgiving someone makes you the better or bigger person. This is a great life lesson. Because everyone should always forgive someone over time. This is forcing you to be the better person and to grow beyond what you are as a person. Allowing yourself to forgive someone shows that you are going to go farther throughout life, and ultimetly be the bigger person.
Clare Pathe
Mr. Kay,
The quote,"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were" can mean a couple of things. The first that comes to mind is that with something like anger, you don't take anything away from it. You just get pissed and that's it. Whereas if you forgive, your able to comprehend the situation and further learn about conflicts in the future. It's like that history saying, "If you don't learn from the past, you'll need to repeat it. If you have a conflict and you don't learn anything from it, then you'll be getting angry every time said conflict comes up. Another thing this quote could mean is literally in the confrontation. It could mean that if a conflict comes up and you react negatively to it, the you are the smaller person in the fight. You could be the big person in the conflict by just forgiving what has been done. This is what I think the quote means.
Luke LaFountain
5th Hour
Anger doesn't benifit you in anyway. it only makes you less of a person. it does you no good to be mad at someone forever and never put down your grudge. it does make sense that if they did something that made you mad you can be angry for awhile. however, Cherie Scott is trying to say we should forgive them. sometimes it might be hard but it always seems to end up better. like if you weren't friends with someone anymore because of something they did, you are mad for awhile. we just have to relize that mabey we could forgive that person for whatever they did even if you still hurt. you could end up with a friend again and you would grow as a person.
I think this quote means that rather then being angry with people you should forgive them. You should always be there for your friends no matter what. When you stay mad at people it just makes you seem like the smaller person. When you forgive people you are the bigger person and you have a friend forever. It also shows that you know how to move on and not hold a grudge. Everybody desirvies to be forgiven, or get another chance no matter who they are. I can never stay mad at my friends i always forgive them. I feel to bad when i stay mad at them.
Katlyn Twigg 6th HOur
I think it means that:
You're anger makes you hate more and more of the things around you. And forgiving past wrongs can make you accept what you might have never even aknowledged.
I was wronged many times, and it made me grow to hate things. I was bullied and 'punished' by a girl; I now hate girls that act like her. I was used and abused by past boyfriends; I've learned to be cautious, and don't appreciate men like they were. I was punished for something I didn't do, and therefore try to get others in trouble for their wrongdoings that others "don't notice".
I am a girl on a mission. I have not learned forgivness yet. So watch out. >:)
"Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of themself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant: "If I die, you are forgiven, If I live, I will kill you." Such is the Rule of Honor."-OMERTA lyrics from Lamb of God(a metal band)
Steffeny Apollo
5th hour
p.s. Best lyrics/words ever.
5th
This quote by Cherie (ha) Carter Scott means that one cannot grow as a person from anger. Anger has no positive aspects, and it doesn't lead to a positive solution. If you are angry with someone, it is easier to be mad at them than to forgive them. It is difficult to forgive someone who has made you angry or upset. In the end, you are also suffering when you do not forgive them. You may ruin the relationship with the person, and regret it in the future. Forgiveness makes you step out of what you are comfortable of. It allows you to grow as a person because you learn to give a second chance. Someday you may want that favor returned, because everyone makes mistakes.
What i think this quote means is that if you are mad your not gonna go anywhere. But if you forgive and forget easily, then you will move on. If you forgive someone then you are telling your self that you can tolerate more things. You'll be more easy going about things. instead of being all up tight about it. People who are willing to forgive someone will move on in like farther. Rather than the ones that hold grudges.
many people would say anger makes you weaker. its that way becuase when youre angry your more explosive and uncontrolable of your reactions. for many people controling their ager is a serious problem. id think the best way to handle a prblem is to deal with it when your calm. when youcan think rationally about it and make the right decision. this quote reminds me of the on we had a day or two ago becuase it expresses the same motive of a persons actions and how they can impact a situation. in the later part of the quote, the author talks about forgivness and how it forces you to grow. i think of that to be like learning from your mistakes.
Andy b,6th hour
To me this quote means that life is two short to be angry with anyone. If you were to be angry with someone, what is that going to prove to anyone? Also, who will it prove to? Personally, I believe being angry with someone is a waste of your breathe. You only get to live once. I do agree with this quote, when you are angry with someone you do get smaller. However, when you are happy and full of life, you do expand. Your open to everything and everyone, always with a positive attitude. Yes, everyone gets mad, at times but they should never hold a grudge against someone for to long. People need to be able to relinquish.
Alanna Nagi
6th hour
This is such a simplistic quote, I'm going to have to bullcrap my way to seven sentences. Anger is a frowned upon emotion of humanity, it is often characterize as 'child-like', so this is what smaller might be. As to forgiveness, a 'mature' trait might force you to become bigger. Well...that's all I got. I can't think of any more thoughts of this quote. Well guess what, I just bull crap my way to seven sentences now.
Derek Guckian
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie Carter Scott
To me this quote means two things. One, that being angry at someone doesn't make things better. All it does is make things worse. And two, that when you're nice to somebody, or forgive them, you move on and forget about it. For example, today at lunch I was sitting there just eating my lunch and a bunch of freshmen come and sit at the table. Now at first I didn't care because I had a headache and when I have a headache I don't care about anything unless it bothers me. Well one of the freshies started "dancing" to the music they were playing in the cafeteria. Of course while he was "dancing" he was bumping the table and causing my headache to get worse then what it was. Least to say I wasn't happy. So I yelled at him and told him a few of my more beautifully colored words if you know what I mean. Of course he got mad at me when obviously he was the reason why I said those wonderful words. Point being, me saying those things didn't make the matter better, just worse.
James Richardson
5th hour
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Mr. Kay,
What this quote is saying is that ig you hold a grudge against someone, you are maing yourself look bad. If you hold a grudge, you are becoming smaller. But if you forgive, you are turning over a new leaf, and starting over. This makes you grow as a person, and in return, makes you a stronger person. If you forgive, you discover new things about yourself. You also learn new things about others that you might not have known if you would have held that grudge. In doign this, it makes your life much more simple, and less stressful. It is a win win for everyone around you.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
I think this quote means that holding too much anger in will waste your energy and actually make you the weaker person. While forgiving people and not letting things get to you will make you happier. Sorry Mr. Kay I'm not really in a good mood and I just want to go outside or something. I'll re-do this blog when I'm happier...
Kymmie
John Kent
5th Hour
If you use anger to accomplish your things it does not let you grow as a true good person. Though it is a part of human nature we can ignore it so we can better our self. Anger doesn't benefit you in anyway. Preventing grudges and prejudges to make things worse in our life bettering our growth. Hate is like a weed. It grows and continues to grow and blocks out the sun a makes the other plants shrivels up.
Forgiveness lets you grow. It strengthens bonds between family and friends. You forgive what they have done to you it will make you and the person feel better and stronger relationship. Love heals all wounds left emotionally.
This quote is alot like the one that says "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger." If you have to work past things of your level of ability it makes you grow as a person. If you hold a grudge your not going anywhere with anything. But if you forgive and overcome your problems they will get past it and there relationship will become stronger. Me and my friends often get into arguments. But when we get into these arguments we usually just fight it out and the next day we have respect for each other and forgive each other and move on. All friends have arguments but if they didn't forgive, no one would have friends.
Taylor Wattles
5th
This quote means to me that if you get anger at someone than you are hurting yourself by holding yourself back from aceptness. If you do not forgive someone then you never will get to know the person better and thats one less person you are freinds with. But if you forgive then you grow beacause you are you learn to tolerate things. By forgiveness you do not hold a grudge and you may befit from that person latter on. The growing that takes place that you are forced to have beyond were you where beacause you are learning to accept someone or somethin. You also have a better quality of life by forgiving rather than thinking about you move on to somthing new. Growing makes you stronger and a better perosn in all acpects of life, and as long as you countuie growing you will always be improving.
Shaun Gerber
This quote could mean a lot. I think it means that when your angry it will just bring you down. It makes you a smaller person. No one really wants to be around someone who is angry all the time. There no fun when there like that. you wont get anywhere being angry. But people who are happy will seem to grow as a better person. Grow faster, and be more mature. When you happy you seem to have a better time in life. You enjoy things to the fullist. You dont really have to worrie about anything if you just stay positive and happy.
This quote means that if you forgive someone, you "grow" and become the bigger person. Whenever something goes bad its always easier to be angry at the person. When you forgive them, you are overcoming anger, which shows maturity. By doing this you are "killing them with kindness" as they say. It is always difficult to forgive someone who has made you upset. Its a natural reaction to become angry and frustrated with the person. That is why you grow as a person when you can see past that and forgive someone. Nothing good comes from anger. You don't learn anything. I don't really follow this quote to well because I get pissed really easily sometimes. I sometimes have a hard time forgiving people, but I don't hold grudges.
Cody Kabisa
5th hour
This quote means to me, that if you were angery all the time and didnt do anything about it you would be smaller. You would hold all your agression in and thats what would hurt you. It would be the same as forgiveness. If you forgave somebody you would force yourself to grow. You would do things that you havent done before. I think that people you forgive other people will go farther in life and will make life better for them. Always express your feelings. If you dont the anger will make you smaller and forgving will do you better.
Troy Wojichowski 5th hr
Holding something against someone for a long time really shows you are acting immature. By forgiving someone, it shows that you are acting more like an adult. People view you differently if you hold a grudge. This quote refers to this by saying that you're getting smaller. However when you are will to forgive someone it shows you are willing to go outside of your comfort zone. This helps you react to future situations and allows you to deal with them much better. Expanding your boundaries is something you'll have to do for the rest of your life. Learning how to expand by dealing with conflicts is one of the most important ways. People will make you mad your entire life and if you hold grudges nobody will want you as a worker or will they like you. Everyone makes mistakes and your not perfect so you can't hold them to extremely high standards. I need to work on this too because I hold grudges a lot of the time. However I am getting better at forgiving people and forgetting about the whole situation altogether.
William Schwartz
6th hr
This quote shows how when problems arise, we can choose to become angry or give forgiveness, and that choice shapes you as a person. We are presented with opportunities to grow as individuals when situations do not go our way or we get in a fight with somone. If we choose to get angry, nothing is accomplished or learned. Our character becomes "smaller" as Scott says. Forgiveness, though, pushes us to accept the situation and move on. It is difficult to truly forgive, and every time that we do, we grow as people. Becoming angry is the easy thing to do in the beginning. If we step back from the problem and think it through though, forgiveness is actually easier in the long run. For example, if you have a fight with your best friend and stay angry with them, you may be damaging your relationship in the long run. If you forgive them, you can go back to being friends and learn from the fight. We should always pick forgiveness over anger, no matter how difficult it may seem at first.
Kaleigh Swanson
5th hour
What this quote means to me is that when you get angry you tend to at alittle immutre. Anger doesnt make you look any older. Some people think that it shows some maturaty. But here is a reality check it doesnt. It is always easier to forget. But a really grown up person would frogive. I think that it is not easy to forgive. People think that it is just so easy to say " I forgive you." Most of the time when people say that they dont really forgive them. That is how we were raised. That is how we a people were trained.
I think it takes more strength to forgive someone than to hold a grude. By overcomeing your anger, you gain strength. This strength is what it means by growing. When you are angry at someone, it wastes a whole bunch of time and energy that you could put to something constructive. If we all learn to forgive, the world would be a better place. When you forgive, you learn how to take things in stride. People will respect a person if they are mature and forgiving, then someone who acts like a high school girl, creating drama. When you get respect, you will defiantly get farther in life. People will look up to you and listen to what you have to say.
Kristen Pauly
6th hr.
When you hold a grduge, you cant move foward with whom your mad at. When you forgive someone, your a better person then you first were. Being angry for a long time doesnt get you anywhere. If anything, your hurting yourself too. Forgiveness shows that your mature and know that lifes too short to hold a grudge. Even if you dont want to forgive someone for what they did, you know if you do, you will be a better person in the long run. Anywho, it takes bllas to forgive someone for something horrible that they did, but then you become familiar with your boundries and how you can strech them.
deets
I think this quote means that when you get angry with one of your bestfriends lets just say it makes you look dumb and immature. The person might think that too, so even if they were being the bad guy you would look worse then them. If you dwelled on the bad thing then you wont go the step ahead but if you forgive a person you are still friends and you went s step forward and the prolem is solved. This makes you seem like your older and you know how to handle things better..the main thing on this is that you should try to always to forgive your friends because are more important then dumb fights. A friend should never not be friends just becaouse of a little fight, i think that i always will have my bestfriends cuz they understand that friendship is so important.
steffieeee
When you are always mad, it makes you a person that doesnt grow, or become someone that someone looks up to. Angry people keep to themself nd dont show others who they really are. All angry people show others, is this rude side that everyone hates. When your angry at the world, it brings you down, and can lead you to suicide. But when you forgive, you show others that you can move on from things, and be a good person. It shows that you understand that people make mistakes, but you can always forgive. When you forgive, it makes you feel better inside. It makes it so you don have to hold a grudge against anyone anymore.
amy urbanik
5th hour
Think this quote expresses that you grow with every time you forgive. When you remain angry you don't recognize the other persons view or reasoning. When you forgive someone, you start to have a better understanding for why people do certain things. One of the hardest things to do is forgive someone. I think its because our pride has been betrayed, and we lose trust in the other person. But life is about growing it's about giving second chances to people. life's about forgiving and not forgetting.
Wow mr. kay your quite the funny one. NOT!!!!
I believe this quote means that you shouldnt let people get to you because once you do you tend to becone a weak and smaller person. While gorgiving someone and not holding onto your grunges will take you places and give you things you have always wanted. If your the kind of person that doesnt hold onto things you will become more successful and have way more fun. Now on the other hand if your the kind of person that holds onto everything you will just fall deeper and deeper into the hole.
Mr.Kay,
This quote means that becomeing angry only makes you the smaller person. Or in other words when someone does something that makes you made, becomeing angry only proves that they are getting to you. But when you chose to forgive your proveing to yourself and others that you decide how you feel not everybody else. I think that when you forgive you grow in the sense of learninng. You learn how to react whith certain problems and you learn that everybody has their own opinions and ways of doing something. I completely agree with this quote. I feel that when you are angry the only way your going to feel any better is if you simply forgive.
brittney Cooper
6th hour
Megan Fraser 5th hour
I think this quote means that holding anger inside is a bad thing. If you do that, it is kind of like remembering it and holding a grudge and then you won't get past it. But if you forgive someone you can move on and grow in your relationship with them. Forgiveness kind of makes you the "bigger person". Then you can also move on with life and realize bigger dreams instead of dwelling on your anger from the past. People that forgive will probably get farther in life and be overall happy people. People that hold anger in won't be like that. It is a good lesson for people to learn and the world would probably be better if people could forgive each other.
To me this qoute means that to be mad at someone isn't betering your self. You have to forgive the person to make your self feel beter. When you forgive someone it shows that you are a better person, but when you keep that anger held in it just eats away at you. Just keeping that anger all bottled up just makes you angry and you are always in a bad mood. But when you let it go by forgiving the person you don't have to worry about it any more. Also when you forgive someone you are making that person feel better. You aren't making them worried that they did something wrong. Over all forgiveness is better for everone.
Chris Reid
6th hour
I think this quote means that when you dont forgive someone your forced to stay in the same place. When you hold grudges you dont grow because you constanltly go back to what you where. Forgiveness allows you too grow because you open up. If you never forgive someone you cannot grow as a person because you always have that in your heart like i wonder what it would be like if i forgave them. It makes you feel better when you forgive someone because you can move on with your life and forget about things that you want to go away. I think it takes bigger people too forgive someone and smaller people to hold grudges.
Crystal maybee 5th
I think that being angry does make you smaller in a sense. If you stay angry all the time you won't expand and make new friends. People hold grudges all the time, never letting anything go. On the other hand if you forgive people you are willing to grow and make new friends. Its good to be forgiveful and forget about aggravating situations because its not worth it to get all bent out of shape. Its good to be forgivefull because you need to give people second chances. This also goes the other way around, someday you are going to want to be forgived for something. You need to have an open mind and grow as a person.
Jordan Blanzy
6th
This quote to me means that is you stay angry at something you will get more and more distant from that and get "smaller". This can go the opposite direction to. If you forgive something you can get more close to it and "grow". Also, depending on what you do, forgive or be angry, dicides on how you are. In other words it some what shapes who you are. That then can effect whether or not another person will talk to you. For example if you get really mad because you don't get a pencil back, someone could be afriad to ask you and never want to talk to you. Last main thing is being angry only hurts you and others around you as a person.
Ty Bouwens, 6th hour
I thin it means if your angry you constantly keep to yourself. If you are forgive full you are open to other people and their opinions. Like if you were to be angry at one friend and stay angry you might lose them a as friend. If you are forgive full of what they have done. You can keep a friendship with them and maybe meet more of their friends and expand your group of people you know. It shows that you might want to be more nice and forgive full and open to people. Opposed to being annoyed and angry with them.
kevin anderson
6th hour
Anger makes you smaller because you hold a grudge against someone or are mad at something. I say this because you can't expand and let things get to you. Most things are not worth fighting for and cause to many problems. To forgive shows you have a tolorance to things. Forgiveness helps you be a better person overall. Being angry is a big waste of time in my opinion. If you never forgive someone it might just happen in return for yourself. Forgiveness should always be tought so the world is a better place.
ANger controls actions, thoughts, and everything about a person. Anger can take over your mind and make you become "little" and somehting you never wanted to be. If you can be angry, but forgive and forget, you grow as a person. By forgiving people you learn acceptance and begin to lose anger. If you hold a grudge you never grow as a person because your stuck to be angry about things in the past. Forgivness gives you the ability to grow as a person and lose you anger inside.
Mikki Nosek 5th HR
Taylor Dieck
6th hr.
This means that anger makes you weak. It makes you vunlerable, because that is your weak spot. While being able to get over anger helps you grow. It helps you grow because whatever you were angry about you move on from it. You grow from the expierence of just letting go. Forgivness makes you stronger in your values and helps you just relax. Your always going to be hurt from expierences but by leting go you have room to grow. When you grow your expanding the way you see the world.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
This quote means that if you stay angry at someone you become lesser of a person. If you forgive someone, you grow up, move on, and become a better person. These are words everyone should live by. If you don't forgive people you stay mean and angry and it starts to carry over to other people and other situations. Forgiving is not always easy. I think even if you forgive you don't have to forget. When you forgive someone you can focus on other things.
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie Carter Scott
When we were kids, there were a lot of things that we couldn't understand; therefore, we used to get easily angry when we see things different than us, since the anger comes from disability of understanding. As we grow up, however, we get to be more capable of different cultures, ideas, appearance, and so other differences. I, and, call it process of growth. If things, seen on us, are the symbols of being a mature person, such as capacity of differences, it means we've become more grown up. In the contrast, if you can't understand, nor embrace different ideas or cultures, you're just on a state of the immature and "a frog in the well." But we should remeber this; anger is to be exploded only toward the injustice on your judgment, and forgiveness is to bloom only for the weakers.
I think this quote is saying that doing wrong makes you feel less of yourself. Which in the long run will make you less of the person you were when you did that wrong. Doing rights makes you feel better about your self. When you forgive someone it doesn't just help your sefl, it also helps the person that you are forgiving. There fore it creates less grief between one another. Once you do good things and feel good about your self you will grow as a person and do more things because you have more self confidence. All in all, this quote is saying that anger brings your self confidence down, as for forgivness and doing good things makes you have a confidence boost and you will be a better person than who you were before.
Zack Ruffin 5th
damnit i am late.
fuck...
anywho, thought i'd better answer this.
anger makes you smaller in the fact that your not helping yourself, in any means, by yelling or shouting at the top of your lungs. i had actually told me dad yesterday, that if he keeps yelling at me when i was helping, i told him i would walk away. his anger would have made himself a smaller workforce. ironic as it is, i really have a thing where i hate when people yell at me when they asked for my help. walking away from that side note, forgiving does have a sense of satisfaction, that nothing else gives off. in my 16 years here, i have definitely screwed up, with friends, with crushes, with strangers, and so many others. but when i grow the courage to say i fucked up, right to there face; well sometimes it comes in handy. a lot of the time, those people then end up helping you out later on. but, to summon that courage takes more of us than what we know, and truly than what we will ever, or should ever know about ourselves. although very contradictory, i do not think anyone wants to truly know who they are, at times, because when we know so much about ourselves, we scrutinize every little thing. that ends up being bad.
to summarze this scutlebutt, do not anger those who you have affection for, because in the end, even though you may have a beter relationship after apologies, it is so much easier just to be truthful and happy to everyone.
nickvisger@mac.com
Uh i know i'm late, i wasn't home friday or saturday.
Anger only makes you one dimensional. Anger forces you to only think about the one thing that is bothering you, and not what is important. And what's important is forgiveness. Forgiving someone shows that you are becoming a better person. It shows that nothing can stop you from being who you are and this forces you to become more mature, thus it helps you grow. Anger can also hold you back from maybe being friends with someone. If you are mad and never forgive someone or a group of people, then you never know how your relationship with those people will be near the end. Also you never know why people do things, if someone does something accidently and you hold a grudge, it could be bad because the person didn't mean it.
I find this quote to fit me very much. This is because when i play sports such as golf. I might have a bad shot and instead of forgiving it, i let it get to my head. Same with hockey. My dad will yell at me when i am playing to try to motivate me to get better, but instead i take it as a negative and let it get to me. My coaches have always told me one thing, You conner are your own worst enemy. They always tell me that im a good athlete but its the head that gets to you. Such as when you miss a put or miss a breakaway, put to the side and get it back.
con
Anger holds you back. Anger can also make you move a step back in the progression of life. If you do something out of anger that is so bad you get sent to jail, your progression in life stops until you get out. I do however believe that you can sit and think and learn while in jail but you will not absorb as many things like you would in the real world. When you forgive someone it moves you a step forward. Forgiveness I think, is essential to life. We all make mistakes and we all need to be forgiven or forgive someone else at one point in our life. If we do not forgive we hold a grudge and that reverts us back top anger.
Big Red
6th Hour
i feel this quote means you shouldnt be mad at people because it doesnt help you. it can only hurt you it may make you feel better for a couple days. In the long run it wont help you out at all. Only because you'll always regret that instant. If you were to forgive that person. Maybe just forgive yourself for something you have done. Not get mad at yourself or at other people. Maybe if you didnt keep a promise just for give yourself and move on. Really it makes you a better person in the long run i feel.
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