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.

People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can’t bend it to their will.

True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound...

Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else’s sorrow rising to your level of pain… it never happens – save yourself endless hurt.

Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people...

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal...

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute...

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don’t think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Offer all bitterness in the sacred Fire and emerge grand, great and godly.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself...

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

It probably wasn’t entirely her fault that she was such a bitter person. Having a name like Grace can be a serious stigma, especially when nature has endowed you with about as much charm as...

Theology isn’t what drove them to their…theology.” author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

Forgiveness is an antidote for bitterness and you can never have an overdose of it

I believe you did not have a happy life.I believe you were cheated.I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery.I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression.I believe joy was a game you...

Sorrow on another’s face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

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

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the...

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.

… not far around the corner from every ugly experience is something really beautiful. And if you stop at every bitter comment you will never reach that beauty.Soledad O’Brien

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able...

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will...

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. ‘Love...

…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? …

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.

Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n’est pas né d’une femme, – Mais de l’amertume des hommes)

Holding unto bitterness and resentment is a load to the suspension system of the mind

It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.

They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had...

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living...

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

There is no disappointment so numbing…as someone no better than you achieving more.

Don’t!” cried Jamie. “Don’t be bitter, Margaret. We don’t know why, we never can know why things happen in this world exactly as they do; but this we know: We know that God is in...

I want to say somewhere: I’ve tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a...

As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left...

His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made...

Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of...

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else’s cup…

No,” I say. “I didn’t know that,” and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a...