#bitterness

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#damaging #die #enemy #experience #harmful

Satire is focused bitterness. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#focused #satire

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter. the Tai Chi instructor ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#grief #parables #sorrow #tai-chi #life

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#bitterness #gratitude #life #possibility #veil

I believe you did not have a happy life. I believe you were cheated. I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery. I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression. I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling. I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger. I believe music had to be melancholy or not at all. I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as your bitterness. I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and unassuaged. Oh, cold and dreamless under the wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful flowers of the hillsides. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#sadness #sorrow #anger

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#cruelty #ironies #life

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#disability #disappointment #emptiness #feelings #fulfillment

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#love #love

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#bitterness #burns #cancer #clean #eats

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

— Lech Walesa

#feeling #filled #helplessness #history #national