Bitterness Quotes - Page 12

• Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Gratitude, Envy, Trying

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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• Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

  Paul Klee

  Fear, Struggle, Want

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Kindness

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heart, Fasting, Clarity

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting Journal: Your Personal 21-Day Guide to a Successful Fast”, p.104, Charisma Media

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• I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Heart

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• The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

  John Owen

  Heart, Roots, Digestion

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Money, War, Political

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• Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Hate, Feelings

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• Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Attitude, Men

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• I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Dream, Father

  "Full of beans" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Attitude, Thinking

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• Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Eye, Kind

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.

  Anthony Capella

  Sweet, Regret, Coffee

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• Revenge is the most destructive emotion. Know that retribution against someone who has hurt you will not neutralise the bitterness of your pain. It will eat away at your very being. Be positive and remember the past cannot be changed.

  Walter Mikac

  Wisdom, Hurt, Pain

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• I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, Slavery, Legacy

  Source: decentfilms.com

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• 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.

  Gillian Jacobs

  How You Feel, About Yourself, Feels

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Husband, Father

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.62

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• Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Flower, Joy

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.198, Delphi Classics

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• I believe it, she's a very good person, kind. There's weariness there, but no bitterness or spite. When you're with a girl like that you feel like a different person. You try to be better, and that's a strain. Men prefer to be friends with her kind, flirt a bit, share confidences. They don't often fall in love with girls like that, but everybody loves them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Girl, Falling In Love, Believe

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• Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Grateful, School

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.356, Bantam

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• Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

  Charles Buxton

  Bitter, Feels

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• It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgiveness, Strong, Hate

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

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• 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.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Rejection, Typical

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• It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

  Emily Giffin

  Kindness, Empathy, Missing

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• Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Death, Pain

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