The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.
Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.
If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.