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One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words — Aftab Alam

Your blessings far outnumber your bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me. — Norman Lock

Anger and bitterness are normal feelings, but they're like cancer if you can't control them. — Andrew Peterson

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. — Oscar Wilde

She feels the anger quiet into a briny resentment. The bitterness floats like an inkblot in her mind's eye. — Hala Alyan

You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody. — Martin Luther King Sr.

And we cried for the years we have lost to hate, bitterness and self-destruction. — Trish Kaye Lleone

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure. — James Richardson

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world — Stephen R. Donaldson

The choice to give up bitterness is not easy, but it is simple: peace or poison. And don't wait until you feel like making it. You never will. — Brent Weeks

How sweet it is to let God purge our souls of ego and bitterness, and to have a little taste of heaven here on earth. — Marilyn Nelson

Bitterness is a bitter distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment. — Dieter F. Uchdorf

... He is driven by bitterness and anger. You can understand that.'
Nico wanted to yell, Like you know what I feel? — Rick Riordan

you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt. — Jeff VanderMeer

Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone. — Florence Nightingale

But even bitterness fades away eventually. We both have to believE that. Don't we? — Sophie Kinsella

You wouldn't believe
the sun had ever shone on this heart. — Antonio Cisneros

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes. — David Pietrusza

People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can't bend it to their will. — Marty Rubin

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. — Lucretius

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us
To will what God wills brings peace. — Amy Carmichael

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It's better to stay busy then to stay bitter. — Charles F. Glassman

Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you. — Suzy Kassem

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,
Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! — Arthur Rimbaud

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.
-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin — Robert Jordan

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains. — Laozi

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you. — Edmond Rostand

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. — Euripides

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. — Tatum O'Neal

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break. — Megan McKenna

The Red Kimono tells it all - the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism. — Sandra Dallas

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. — Zora Neale Hurston

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness. — Marc Maron

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation. — Victor Hugo

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. — Max Lucado

I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive. — Michael Ignatieff

But it is impossible for anyone to say 'I am sacrificing myself' without feeling bitterness. — Simone De Beauvoir

Bitterness is a paralytic.
Love is a much more serious motivator. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities. — George F. Will

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac. — Agatha Christie

Satire is focused bitterness. — Leo Rosten

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it. — Hilda Doolittle

You can be treated badly. But you do not have to be bitter. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness. — Cornel West

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. — Charles Buxton

I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment. — Pierce Brosnan

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. — Jacqueline Carey

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The bitterness of defeat adds to the sweetness of victory. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient. — Paul Brunton

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. — Harold Bloom

After reaching ninety, one ages differently from the way one aged at fifty or sixty: one ages without bitterness. — Sandor Marai

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. — Allen Boyd

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn't care who was cut in the process. — Katherine McIntyre

They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived. — Mark Helprin

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet. — Myrtle Reed

How can you possibly be an agent of positive change in the world when you are full of bitterness and hatred? — Anita Heiss

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. — Richard Rohr

Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness. — Dada Bhagwan

It was one thing not taking an old bitterness to a new country. It was another to actually pay to send back Libyan Semtex to blow up my home. — A.A. Gill

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities. — David O. McKay

A blameless heart is without bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting. — Pema Chodron

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness. — Fran Lebowitz

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace. — F.B. Meyer

Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

SALES SPECIALIST. CAN EAT BITTERNESS AND ENDURE HARDSHIP. — Leslie T. Chang

Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use. — Dalai Lama

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time. — Madeleine L'Engle

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. — Toba Beta

New England: All of the Bitterness, Most of the Boating, None of the Bullshit. — Caroline Kepnes

Don't fill your breath with bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness. — Brandon Sanderson

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. — John Owen

I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... — John Geddes

The fact of dying for what is strong robs death of its bitterness - and at the same time of all its value. — Simone Weil

One must begin somewhere, sometime, to let go of the bitterness, or be eaten alive and the marrow sucked out. — Jan Karon

Loving for the second time isn't sweet; it's bitter, and hurt more than the first. — Jessica E. Larsen

A love gone bad, a sea of bitterness: such an everyday thing. As ordinary as the tide, and perhaps as relentless. But tides turned, too. — Deanna Fei

Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway. — Pat Dye

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts? — Mignon McLaughlin

With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again. — Marty Rubin

Cast from your heart the bitterness ... — Vincent De Paul

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — John Ortberg Jr.

Brokenness a result of bitterness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years ... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure. — L.M. Montgomery

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory. — Alexander The Great