When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

Shoo. Away with you. It’s my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.

But you can’t start. Only a baby can start. You and me – why, we’re all that’s been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that’s us. This land, this red land, is us;...

I no longer believe in love,” she said bitterly. “When people claim to have lost their heart, it’s usually only their wits that have vanished.

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed...

A cynical modification of letting go doesn’t bring forgiveness, it’s when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

Everythin’ seems ter happen ter you, doesn’ it?

Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a...

No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional...

As for us, during twenty years’ reign, we have known much bitterness.

Fill your heart with kindness and forgiveness, there will be no stress, anger, or bitterness.

Four girls about Mira’s age were standing out on the deck on the upper level of the ferry. They were wearing hoodies, sweatpants and jeans. One of the girls was staring at the screen on...

Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at odd moments, Stoner remembered what Masters had said; and though it brought him...

Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love’s myriad ways of communicating.

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don’t like you.

Die Bücher habe ich nach und nach gekauft von dem Geld, das ich mir Stundengeben verdiente. Viele davon antiquarisch, alle Klassiker zum Beispiel, ein Band kostete eine Mark und zwanzig Pfennig in steifem, blauem Leinen....

Everyone is a little bitter. We’re born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, “No you can’t.

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned

I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses’ acquaintances, but that will...

Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget.

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructiveto be bitter.

Once you have money and fame, the next thing you should expect is scandal and shame.

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Once you decide to forgive, you initiate the healing process. Forgiveness gives your soul permission to move on to the higher and healthier ground of emotional recovery. Forgiveness is to your soul what antibiotics are...

An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness…

Life’s always sweeter behind River Nile! Cross it; forget the days of the bitter Bile! Leave the torture behind and give a Smile! Keep smiling; Don’t just do it just for a While!

Bitterness imprisons victory .

…there’s something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one – I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me…

When ‘Dirty Mack’ salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy...

Forgiveness truly brings freedom. If we don’t forgive, bitterness and anger build to the point where not only are we hurting ourselves, but in the process can hurt others around us.

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

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

The Blue Jay’s Lullaby—Spiders and sowbugs and beetles and crickets, Slugs from the roses and ticks from the thickets, Grasshoppers, snails, and a quail’s egg or two— All to be regurgitated for you.Lullaby, lullaby, swindles and...

He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or...

In the best relationships, there remain serious pockets of unresolved bitterness.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don’t ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

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

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life’s ironies too many times.

Koschei the Deathless made a face as he tasted the wine. “It is far too sweet. Comrade Stalin fears bitterness and has the tastes of a spoiled princess. I savor bitterness–it is born of experience....