Bitterness Quotes
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Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
Maya Angelou -
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
Rebecca Stead
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
Pir Vilayat Khan -
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Tatum O'Neal -
Patriotism is not enough—I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.
Elizabeth Wein -
Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.
Major Taylor -
Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
Ira Sachs -
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
Bao Dai -
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
Oscar Wilde -
As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
F. B. Meyer -
I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.
Nicholas Sparks -
Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.
M. J. Ryan -
It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
Petrarch -
I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
Andy Rooney -
It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.
Heather Small M People -
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.
Apolo Ohno -
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
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For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
Virginia Woolf -
Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.
Karrine Steffans -
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
Aristotle