#bitter

My writing tools were my most precious belongings. My best quill pen was made from a raven’s feather . . . I was often so poor that I could not pay my mantua-maker, but I always invested in the best ink and parchment. I smoothed it with pumice stone till it was as white and fine as my own skin, ready to absorb the rapid scratching of my quill ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#kate-forsyth #love-of-writing #love

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#insperational #love #poem #love

Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry bitter gourd with egg, then it's dlicious. I told Lan-Lan many times, we have only one life, it's important to kua kwee, to look spaciously. Not keep the eyes so narrowed down to the small dispairs. Those people who say forgive and forget, I say they not right. Not so simple. I say, find right medicine. Bitterness must be just right for problem. Then swallow it, think of good things can do when no longer sick. ↗

— Lydia Kwa

#depression #inspirational #medicine #sick #forgiveness

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ↗

— Chanakya

#bitter #bitter truth #every #friendship #self-interest

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bitter #carry #died #easier #great

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#feels #mind #praise #reproof #unmerited

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bitter #bitter truth #china #companies #enlisted

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#bittersweet #everything #feel #had #happen

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter. ↗

— Holly Near

#bitter #get #hard #i #know

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#bitterness #i #love #myself #open