What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.
Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.
The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.
Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.
I feel like a lot of the stuff coming out right now just feels really inauthentic to me. But apparently, people don't seem to see through it. And this makes me sound bitter, but it's just my perspective. I'm not bitter. I just feel like there's a lot of stuff that doesn't feel like it's coming from a place of any sort of integrity. It just doesn't feel like it's coming from the heart, basically. It just feels like it's being produced because people know it's a formula that will work, or it's easily digestible and fun to look at.
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.
There are bitter weeds in England.
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable. . . Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
unfortunately, we're all out of bitter evange at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing