455 Quotes About Bitterness

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

If life feels bitter and sour, taste the sugar from the sweetness of flower

those whom love has held, has held here in timecurious, in this labyrinth of roses—it will go on holding, though in cruelty—of stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.

A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.

The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive, faithful.

With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.

As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up.

Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt.