Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Satire is focused bitterness.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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