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Valentine's Day is just a capitalist scam, designed to make people currently in a relationship spend unnecessary money in a fruitless attempt to ensure undying love and devotion. For those of us not in a relationship, Valentine's Day is simply added pressure to identify ourselves within the context of a romantic relationship, whipping us into a frenzy that only the presence of our soul mates can relieve.

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.

We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.

What condition is that? I’ve been in this condition my whole life,” Liir answered. “It’s the only condition I know. Bitter love, loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It’s where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Well, I may or may not be bitter, but if I were I would have good reasons for it: chief among them that American blindness, or cowardice, which allows us to pretend that life presents no reasons for being bitter.

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.

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-destructive to be bitter.

When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.

When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and spark; there is a vivid flash and a deafening roar, but when the smoke is blown away, it is the end.

Whoever says sleep equals laziness is probably a bitter insomniac.

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!  surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

When anger and bitterness overpower your goodness, you can neither apologise nor forgive.

When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, ‘What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?’ It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger.

When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.

When he died I had been away from home for a little over a year. In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me.

When people go through bitter situations, they get a better understanding of bitter situations. They get good insight into bitterness, and they get to know the real essence of bitter situations; whether to act thereon because of bitterness, forgiveness or purposefulness!

When you let go of your bitterness, inadequacy, & incompleteness, the more you tap into your true creative genius. Unchain your inner voice!

Who is the man who can speak to the strong? Where is the fool who can talk to the wise? Men who are dead now have learnt this long, Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain.

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

With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.

You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.' P189

Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.

Your blessings far outnumber your bitterness.

Your difficulty can be hard enough, but the resentment or anger you drag along with it can be even more debilitating than the difficulty itself.

You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody.

You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the doorstep for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don’t forget! Mind your mind!

You will soon regret the bitter words you fumed when you were angry.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.

As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

Bitterness is so ugly.

Bitterness doesn't serve you any good. And it really tells you more about how you feel about yourself than anything you feel about your friends.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.