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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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

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? …