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“If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.”

“Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.”

May Has Beens Two Strong Women Mistake Lessons Bitter Nasty Twisted Cheated Wronged Cheated On

Author:Angela Merkel

“...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due.”

Source: The Razor's Edge

“I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.”

Wells Kind Used Bitter Used To Be Be Kind Jealous

Author:Carlos Alazraqui

“I was briefly bitter.”

Bitter

Author:Margot Kidder

“I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.”

Has Beens Stills Two Life Is Week Bitter Paris New Life Two Weeks Nothing New

Author:Camille Claudel

“The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.”

Ifs Ends Whole Fun Waiting Economy Bitter Destroyed

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.”

Party Healthy Republican Degrees Unity Democrat Bitter Warfare Partisans

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.”

Years Wells Kind Found Opportunity Records Particular Sweet Bitter Contracts Runners Bitter Sweet Runner Up

Author:Clay Aiken

“Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.”

Ends Helping Girl Pleasure Secret Half Skins Lips Wit Bitter Intimate Injury Scream Possessed Solitary Glances Amazement Self Injury Voluptuous

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.”

Lying Drink Bitter Flattery

Author:Denis Diderot

“It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.”

Soul Body Difficult Sweet Bitter

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.”

Ends Self Fighting Courses Games Belief My Own Beats Ideals Stupidity Bitter Manage Disgusting Brutality Stood Up

Book:The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no

Source: The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no

“I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.”

Ifs Needs Mean I Can Ends Sometimes Done Facts Pressure Bitter Irresponsible Things Done Under Pressure Procrastinating

Author:Cameron Diaz

“I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.”

Thinking Want Persons Doe Dark Levels Clear Bitter

Author:Martha Plimpton

“It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.”

Negative Bitter

Author:John Bolton

“I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.”

People Want Writing Self Enough Views Novel Conscious Bitter Settling Academic Self Conscious Grudge

Author:Richard Russo

“I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.”

Thinking Long Ends Gone Feet Tvs Months Nine Bitter Pregnant Nine Months

Author:Amy Poehler

“I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.”

Thinking Needs Looks Important Country Matter Values Right Now Bitter Our Country Founding Rise Above Partisans Partisanship

Author:Walter Isaacson

“If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.”

Ifs May Play Turns Regret Guitar Bitter Restaurants Chasing Gigs Elusive Down The Road

Author:Cliff Richard

“Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.”

Knows Way Facts Felt Serious Poet Scientist Died Plant Very Good Hearing Active Bitter Grants Morphology

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.”

Wells May Angry Population Bitter Fragile

Author:Craig Kilborn

“I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.”

Ends Bits Quality Oil Bitter Kicks Extras Dishes Virgins Sweet Love Olives Good Quality Maple Syrup Olive Oil Savory Maple Syrup

Author:Nadia Giosia

“We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.”

Want Waiting Bitter Broke Comprehensive

Author:Gene Ween

“I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.”

Thinking Election Bitter American Politics

Author:Danny Strong

“There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.”

Ifs Want War Hours Tears Destruction Angry Bitter Ems Frustrated Nobility

Author:Charles Durning

“Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.”

Long Guy Long Time Bitter

Author:Peyton Manning

“I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.”

Knows World Want Real Kids Parent Successful Tvs Angry Treated Bitter Idiot Being Successful Real World

Author:Al Roker

“I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.”

Ifs Ends Choices Fighting Party Structure Democratic Traditional Bitter

Book:It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

Source: It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living

“Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.”

Writing Wanted Figures Return Bitter Exhausted Childlike Public Figures

Author:David Leavitt

“I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.”

Memories Gold Bitter Hopefully Japan Erase Beijing

Author:Kohei Uchimura

“Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.”

People Knows Eye Fighting Bitter

Author:Eva Gabrielsson

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”

Tears News Bitter Shed

Author:William Johnson Cory

“And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.”

Body Pain Dies Evil Hours Dark Battle Bitter Latter Healed Dark Hours

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he controls everything we do. It doesn't mean he puts a bridle on us and leads us by the nose. He gives each one of us free will and common sense and a spirit that can communicate with his. When we go through afflictions, he allows us to choose our response. But no matter what our response may be, he sticks around to the bitter end.”

Source: Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life

“We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.”

Ideas Hard Winning Easy Struggle Clear Blood Victory Luck Bitter Sweat Self Reliance Reliance Good Luck Cadre

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.”

Ifs Thinking Real Waiting Blood Ocean Intention Bitter Invited Provocation

Author:Saul Bellow

“And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)”

Ifs Children Dies Fate Cry One Day Bitter Grandma Time Passes

Book:Great House

Source: Great House

“Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.”

People Ifs Pain Suffering Accepting Grateful Bitter Love Life Be Grateful Love Pain

Author:Stephen Colbert

“There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?”

Use Water Rooms Healing Sweet Bitter Hypocrisy Soup

Author:Rumi

“Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.”

May Art Asks Sacrifice Disappointment Bitter Bitter Disappointment

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.”

Should Children Play Together Fighting Bitter Grudge Feuds

Author:Joseph Wechsberg

“Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.”

Moving Hate Justice Becoming Discipline Dignity Blame Instruments Presses Bitter Temptation

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou

“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.”

“I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.”

Ifs Thinking World Remember Fate Bitter Think Of Me Remember Me Resigned

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.”

Eye Young Night Girl Hurt Deals Laughing Talent Example Expression Smart Dancing Glasses Clubs Wide Bitter Sophistication Apex Night Club Flappers

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth”

Might Hate Sound Trouble Bitter Stirring

Author:Malcolm X

“Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.”

Heart Mean Used Hurt Love Is Grief Grace Teacher All Things Opposites Incredibles Bitter Rip Bittersweet

Author:Adyashanti

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