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.

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....

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.