Bitterness Quotes - Page 5

• Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

  Agatha Christie

  Turns, Eternal

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1934). “MURDER IN THREE ACTS”

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• Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  Gary Smalley

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

  Tom Lantos

  America, Police, Enlisting

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• I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

  Edith Piaf

  Life, Thinking, Tears

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• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Views, Too Much

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• Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

  Kevin Rudd

  Anger, Years, Hatred

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)

  Edith Cavell

  Hate, Views, Hatred

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• I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

  Gloria Trevi

  Bears

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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• Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Attachment, Bears

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

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• I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Heart, Somewhere Else, Feelings

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• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

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• Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

  Alain de Botton

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2014

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• Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Men, Forever

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.158, Macmillan

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• I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

  Andy Rooney

  Docks, I've Learned, Harbors

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• Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Friendship, Relationship, Joy

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• Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname's sake!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Blessed, Soul

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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• Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

  Rajneesh

  Summer, Spiritual, Sweet

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• The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Practice, Greed

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.85, Penguin

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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Trust, Truth

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Confused, Ambition

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• I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Agony, Contrast

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

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• Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

  Rubin Carter

  Hurt, Hatred, Soul

  "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter still fighting long after boxing days pass" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.

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• I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Heart, Forgiving

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.94, Oxford University Press on Demand

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