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“Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can'...”
“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.”
“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”
“Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.”
“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though...”
“Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.”
“Bitterness is captivity.”
“It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.”
“If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.”
“Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.”
“I know I am flaky, I accept thatand I know, as well, that I can mangle the good kings English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses acquaintances, but that will not prevent me from spe...”
“A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.”
“Hed thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little and that, more than anythingmore than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretche...”
“Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.”
“You can spread joyfulness in any place of bitterness.”
“Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart.”
“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.”
“But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years an...”
“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. ”
“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”
