“It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and be grateful for that which you receive. Don't become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.” NeedsPersonsAbleTimeMistakeRelationshipHonorMetsGratefulBitterBe Grateful Book:Zen and the Art of Falling in Love Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love
“It's the difference between someone who loves you more than anything in the world giving you criticism and getting it from some bitter stranger on the Internet. What my dad said to me was the kind of criticism where I was like, "Oh, my God, I'm on the wrong track." I'm so grateful to him for doing that. He was such a no-nonsense guy in that sense.” WorldGivingKindSaidGuyDifferencesLove YouInternetDadCriticismGratefulMy DadTrackStrangerBitterNonsenseSo GratefulLove You MoreNo Nonsense Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.” YearsLongSeemsDarkPrayerGratefulBitterRetrospectI Am Grateful Author:Marilynne Robinson
“This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.” GivingFirstsRaceGratitudePureCrossesGratefulWineBitterCupsSupperSpongesVinegarSupper Time Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is, it could always be worse, but isn't... and the thought that things could always be better and the bitter unhappiness this creates is discarded!” WayHeartFoundUnderstandingSituationGratitudeEternalSummerBlessedGratefulBitterUnhappinessDiscarded Author:Frithjof Schuon
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.” LooksFacesFallEasySidesBehindsGratitudeShadowGratefulBitterSunshineYour FaceBe GratefulJustifiedBehind YouBright Side Author:Walt Whitman
“Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.” GratitudeGratefulHandleBitterRoughSmooth Author:Thomas Jefferson
“We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.” ThinkingGratitudeGratefulBitter Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!” FeelsProblemPainSufferingChoicesGratitudeLuckyGratefulDisappointmentDeterminedBitterInevitableCompareEtcYou ChooseSomething BetterUnlucky Author:Viktor E. Frankl
“You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.” HappensAttitudeGratitudeGratefulBitterDisappointedChoose To Be HappyHappy And Grateful Author:Brian Tracy
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!” SeemsUnderstandingGratitudeBlessingGratefulTrialsBitterDisguiseFullnessBlessings In Disguise Author:Oscar Wilde
“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.” PeopleIfsPainSufferingAcceptingGratefulBitterLove LifeBe GratefulLove Pain Author:Stephen Colbert