Bitterness Quotes
Bitterness Quotes
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
Alain De Botton
Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it’s not the person we’re resenting – it’s us.
Alana Stewart
Bitterness is so ugly. I don’t want to go there.
Amy Heckerling
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.
Benjamin Hoff
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russell
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
Bible
Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic, emotion, usually resulting from resentlemt over unment needs.
Craig Groeschel
There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
Erwin W. Lutzer
As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
F.B. Meyer
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
Ira Sachs
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
Jacqueline Carey
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
James Broughton
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
James Broughton
Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.
James Richardson
Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
John Ortberg Jr
Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.
Lee Strobel
The medical evidence is clear and mounting. It’s no exaggeration to say that bitterness is a dangerous drug in any dosage and that your very health is at risk if you stubbornly persist in being unforgiving.
Lee Strobel
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host.
Maya Angelou
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
Nelson Mandela
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert G. Menzies
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
Samuel J. Hurwitt
Hate and bitterness are the only weapons wielded by the blade.
Thomas Gregory
Bitterness does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored . . . than the vessel on which it is poured.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
Vernon Howard
A bitter spirit will keep you from being a better person.
Woodrow Kroll
When the root is bitterness, imagine what the fruit might be.
Woodrow Kroll