Bitterness Quotes - Page 6

• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Adversity, Bears, Remember

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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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• 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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• AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Soul, World, Affliction

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.9, 谷月社

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• I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

  Alexander the Great

  Victory, May, Taste

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• Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

  Anthony de Mello

  Thinking, Practice, Dying

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.114, Image

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• Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Life, Hatred, Disease

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• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

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• When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.

  Oswald Chambers

  Light, Impossible, Lord

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.20, Discovery House

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• I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessed, Sick, Healthy

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Kindness, Generosity

  Martin Luther “Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther”, Augsburg Books

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• Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

  Jerry Bridges

  Heart, Sovereign, Arise

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Pursuit of Holiness: Run in Such a Way as to Get the Prize 1 Corinthians 9:24”, p.72, Tyndale House

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• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Doors

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• Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hope, Falling In Love, Giving Up

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• Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Emotional, Unhappiness, Oneself

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.173, Routledge

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• If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friendship, Use, Feels

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.9070, Delphi Classics

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  Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Friendship, Change

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

  John Piper

  Parent, Grace, Sin

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• a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

  Betty MacDonald

  Pockets, Resentment, Grudge

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• Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Others Happiness, Giving

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• I grow old on my bitterness.

  Anne Sexton

  Grows

  Thomas Kinsella, Douglas Livingstone, Anne Sexton (1968). “Poems”

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• The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.

  Mark Nepo

  Pain, Lakes, Glasses

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.18, Conari Press

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• All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Irritation, Envy, Vices

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.119, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

  Francis Thompson

  Love, Flower, Rose

  'Daisy' (1913)

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