The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.
The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.
. . . 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!
I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.
Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.
He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.
The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly. . . . So thank you SAC. Job well done. Enjoy your retirement.
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.
The compulsion of fate is bitter.
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.
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.