According to one study, self-forgiveness is the ability to "abandon self-resentment in the face of one's own acknowledged objective wrong, while fostering compassion, generosity, and love toward oneself".
It lies beneath layers of self doubt, resentment and frustration, accumulated through the disappointments and traumas of a lifetime.
First, and notwithstanding the fact that people may be angry with themselves, experience self-directed loathing, and struggle to overcome such negative emotional attitudes, it is not clear that the idea of resenting oneself is coherent and, thus, whether forgiveness as overcoming self-referential resentment is possible.
Who else, after all, stops a show these days with a long, measured ballad of self-reproach, resentment and resignation in which the singer never smiles?
Sobriety is devoid of self-pity, resentment, and blame.
She cites lost love, self-loathing, resentment, misery, loneliness, suspension and human indignity as points of interest.
Instead, there's the usual human mixture of self-indictment, self-criticism, extreme resentment, and hope.
See the light in everything, be grateful for all that you have and don't let yourself bask in self pity or resentment or bitterness.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, and ego.
The name-dropping, the evasiveness, the delusional stories, the woundedness, the self-pity, the resentment toward the establishment: it formed a ziggurat of self-deception.
