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Quotes About Bitterness

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Bitterness is the cancer of bones.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Like attracts like" is the Law of Attraction. If we live mindful lives centered on love and nonjudgment, we'll attract the same type of people into our sphere. If we give that energy out, those who also give out that energy will be drawn to us. If we're bitter, envious, and spiteful, we will not only draw those same people to us, but we'll repel the ones who can probably assist us the most in our souls' growth. Who would you rather have in your life?
~ James Van Praagh
While internees had "first accepted with philosophical understanding the decision of their government," Ickes told Roosevelt that these imprisoned Americans, charged with no crimes, were now bitter. "I do not think that we can disregard the unnecessary creation of a hostile group right in our own territory." As
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
~ Jane Goodall
For enjoyment is a weapon. The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. Joy is not a weak spineless idiot either. Its backbone is stronger than bitterness.
~ Jane Roberts
Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.
~ Janette Rallison
Being envious of other people's talents will make you bitter. Being envious of other people will steal your joy. Be yourself. Believe me, the sooner you are able to cheer yourself on, the better. Do what YOU do and BE who YOU are.
~ Jann Arden
Mrs Pungent McShark was a horrible soul, Her face resembled a squashed sausage roll, She was bitter and twisted, heartless and cruel, With breath that smelt worse than a septic cesspool.
~ Jason Hall
Odiar a alguien es como beberte un vaso de veneno creyendo que así vas a matar a quien odias.
~ Javier Cercas
El resentimiento pertenece a los jugadores mediocres.
~ Javier Marías
giving to steal and cruel kind, a heart to fear, to doubt a mind, to differ a disease of same, conform the pinnacle of am though dull were all we taste as bright, bitter all utterly things sweet, maggoty minus and dumb death all we inherit, all bequeath
~ E.E. Cummings
Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way.
~ Edith Wharton
he was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple.
~ Edith Wharton
Sviatopolk tenía la impresión de que ya no podía seguir odiando, pues el odio que se había nutrido con él año tras año, impulsándolo hacia delante como un cruel jinete que hinca las espuelas en los flancos de su caballo, había acabado por agotarlo.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
So much of the bitterness that the term 'McCarthyism' evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of 1953 - both in the laboratories of Fort Monmouth and in the surrounding communities of Red Bank and Belmar, where some of the best scientists and engineers in America worked.
~ David Oshinsky
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.
~ Suzanne Pleshette
I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.
~ Kris Carr
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
~ Lady Gaga
You know, I think that nature has such a powerful message about moving from dark to light, and bitterness to sweetness.
~ Corinne Bailey Rae