Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.