#bitterness

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#god-s-will #nature

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#heart #poetry #poem

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#anyone #bear #bitterness #i #towards

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness. ↗

— Paul Harris

#bitterness #civil #destined #experience #extreme

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#attacks #become #bitterness #choice #disappointment

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love. ↗

— Graham Greene

#love #love

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#death #family #forgiveness #suicide #death

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#cynical #forgiveness #letting-go #sugarcoat #forgiveness

No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#friendship #regret #suicide #friendship