#bitterness

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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.


Edith Cavell


#anyone #bitterness #enough #hatred #i

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


Abdul Kalam


#around #bitterness #breeds #cannot #half-hearted

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.


Lech Walesa


#feeling #filled #helplessness #history #national

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.


Alain de Botton


#aspirations #bitterness #disappointments #hope #life

They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had been waiting since she was fifteen. A rose and mauve lady that had not yet gathered her flesh and her beauty into dark clothes, and still waited, like a rose stripped of its petals, with her faded colors and her artificial smile, bitter as a grimace.


Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio


#bitterness #imagery #love #age

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.


William Makepeace Thackeray


#bitterness #deceit #only #real #reality

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.


Alain de Botton


#bitterness #forgetfulness #anger

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.


Criss Jami


#bitterness #correction #distinction #hatred #instigation

It weren’t too loo long before I seen something in me, had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside of me. And I just didn’t feel so, accepting, anymore.


Kathryn Stockett


#depression #sadness #change

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.


Erwin W. Lutzer


#forgiveness