Best 461 quotes in «bitterness quotes» category

The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

10 Tips for Overcoming Bitterness 1. Avoid anger. 2. Live joyfully. 3. Shun envy. 4. Practice gratitude. 5. Seek peace. 6. Forgive. 7. Be content. 8. Tame your ego. 9. Murmur less. 10. Love more.

Acid filled Sara’s mouth. It wasn’t fair. That’s what Sara wanted to say. To scream at the top of her lungs. It just wasn’t fair. Lena wasn’t strong. She would bend, not break. She would recover from this tragedy the same easy way she recovered from every other tragedy before. Even if she lost Jared, Lena would always know what it felt like to have his child growing inside of her. She could always hold her baby’s hand and think of holding Jared’s. She could see her child laugh and learn and grow and play sports and do school projects and graduate from college and Lena would always, always remember her husband. She would see Jared in her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. On her deathbed, she would find peace in the knowledge that they had made something beautiful together. That even in death, they would both go on living. “Sara,” Faith said. “What’s happening here?” Sara wiped her eyes, angry that she was back in the same dark place she’d started at this morning. “Why does everything come so damn easy to her?” She struggled to speak. Her throat clenched around every word that wanted to come out of her mouth. “Everything just opens up, and she always walks through unscathed and—” Sara had to stop for breath. “It’s just so easy for her. She always has it so goddamn easy.

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

A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think.

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

A grateful heart is better than a bitter soul.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

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

And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down my bra in public.

Anger and Bitterness go hand in hand like a bad love affair, just breeding more of the same. So LET THEM GO!!!

Anyway, you don't know what's going to happen. I'm only just thickening the plot. --I'd say it was pretty thick already. Thick plots are my specialty. If you want a thinner kind, look elsewhere.

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

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

A blameless heart is without bitterness.