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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

You can be treated badly. But you do not have to be bitter.

You can spread joyfulness in any place of bitterness.

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

You crossed the entire continent together, and yet neither of you made a move?" She huffed another short hollow laugh. "No wonder you don't have any children.

You don’t have to be bitter in life. Focus on the beauty of life.

You don't need to be deep in order to be called intellectual. You need to create connectivity with the people by using the language that they can understand. You don't need to be an artist, because it comes out naturally. You don't need to be critic and poet, because what matters is that you believe in yourself. You just don't need to be envious for the happiness of other people. Throw all your bitterness away. Peace be with you!

You haven’t got a clue, Devon,” Akira spat out. “I would have chosen any life other than the one I have. I envy your naïveté. Your belief in the possibility of love. I know you don’t understand any of this or who I am, but I was like you at one time. I only wanted to see the best in people. To believe this world was filled with hope and kindness.” Her bitterness was apparent. “I thought compassion came with understanding…with seeing inside a person’s heart and knowing their true mind. But I was wrong. Nothing in this world is what it seems.

You have any complaints or comments, you direct them to me. If you call and harass Granddad again, I'll do whatever I can, legally, to revoke that trust fund you've been living off of for the last thirty years." "You have no right to—" "No, you have no right. You never worked a day for this company, any more than you and my mother worked a day to be parents. Until he's ready to step aside, Eli MacMillan runs this show. And when he's ready to step aside, I'll run it. Believe me, I won't be as patient as he's been. You cause him one more moment's grief, and we'll have more than a phone conversation about it." "Are you threatening me? Do you plan to send someone after me like Tony Avano?" "No, I know how to hit you where it hurts. I'll see to it all your major credit cards are canceled. Remember, you're not dealing with an old man now. Don't fuck with me." He jabbed the off button, considered heaving the phone, then spotted Sophia standing at the edge of the patio.

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

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 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.

Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.

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

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!

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

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

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

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

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

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

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

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

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

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.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

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.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

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.