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• The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Winning

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• Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.239

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• This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

  John Keats

  Lying, Heart, Names

  Epitaph for himself, in Richard Monckton Milnes 'Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats' (1848) vol. 2, p. 91.

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• Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Resentment, Antidote

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.48, Conari Press

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• Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

  Ally Condie

  Break Up, Breakup, Memories

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• 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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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pride, Envy

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• All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren't better ...I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren't worse.

  Johnny Cash

  Gratitude, Hate, Positivity

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• Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Community, Hatred, Brotherhood

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

  David Remnick

  Mistake, Thinking, Vanity

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• Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

  Omar Suleiman

  Giving, Sometimes, This Life

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Oct 18, 2012

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• I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

  Zane Grey

  Games, Bitter, Ends

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• Love is a mighty power,
  a great and complete good.
  Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
  It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
  all bitterness sweet and acceptable.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Good Love, Love Is

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• It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Adversity, Fate, Cups

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• Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

  Euripides

  Heart, Judgment

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

  Cyril Connolly

  Failure, Overrated, Undesirable

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• Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

  Max Lucado

  Hunters, Traps, Snares

  Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Greatness

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• Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter. When you come close to sellin' out reconsider. Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Heart, Giving, Choices

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Bitter, My Thoughts

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

  James Richardson

  Greater

  "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.

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• Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people, that can heal relationships shattered by bitterness....I f the world is to be improved, the process of love must make a change in the hearts of men. It can do so when we look beyond self to give our love to God and others, and do so with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Love Is, Men

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• Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to Your image in every area of my life’? Or has your bitterness taken root, turning into rebellion and hardness of heart? Have you learned to shield yourself from the convicting voice of God’s Spirit?

  David Wilkerson

  Sweet, Jesus, Taken

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• Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Courage

  "Vatican denies claim that Pope Francis failed to protect Argentina priests" By Laura Smith-Spark, Hada Messia, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Letting Go, Deep Love

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 23, 2011

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