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• Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Change, Sweet, Essence

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Others Happiness, Giving

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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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• Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

  Franz Liszt

  Suicide, Sacrifice, Long

  Adrian Williams, Franz Liszt (1990). “Portrait of Liszt: by himself and his contemporaries”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

  Myrtle Reed

  Years, Sometimes

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Weakness, Odor, Arms

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• Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

  John Owen

  Religious, Darkness, Affliction

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.583

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• Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Keys, Suffering, Growing

  Billy Graham (1998). “Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham”, HarperCollins

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• Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

  Tony Evans

  Giving, Given, Hostage

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Apr 15, 2013

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• There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

  Amy Carmichael

  Women, History, Victory

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• Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

  Paul David Tripp

  People, Judging, Done

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• Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

  Horace

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.

  Jim Elliot

  Easter, Simple, Water

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• Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

  Rumi

  Courage, Challenges, Foundation

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• And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

  Graham Greene

  Lost Love, Writing, Men

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  Dream, Dark, Sky

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• The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Sweet, Burning, Bark

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Hate

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.176, Penguin

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• And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Sadness, Opposites

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Taken, Expression

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• The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

  Stephen Baxter

  Cutting, Past, Envy

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• Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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