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

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....

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey...

As impossible as this may seem (in infertility), try to reach outside of yourself and realize all of the things that you are able to do for now because you do not have children. There...

It is hope–with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet–that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and...

One of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da Vinci was working on the painting he got into an argument with a...

Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not...

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it...

the worst thing,” he told me,”is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

No matter what happens to you, you do not have to be bitter. You deserve to be happy.

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

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that...

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing.

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love

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

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

Being in love with your best friend is problematic.

Those who pretend as if they don’t love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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...