Bitterness Quotes

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

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

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

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

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

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

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

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

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

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.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

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

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.