178 quotes found
“Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt.”
“We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be ...”
“He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.”
“If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, ...”
“The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look ...”
“To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.”
“All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.”
“With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.”
“God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.”
“I'm sick of that, I said. Young, young, young, that's what I get, all day, everyday. But I know your secret....You're all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals...”
“People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. Mohammed Ali”
“Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at odd moments, Stoner remembered what Masters had said; and though it brought...”
“Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities.”
“Pride is all about selfishness. Valuing and preferring ourselves, our agendas, our perspectives over anything or anyone else. Pride is easily o ended (How dare he say that!). Pride is easily irrita...”
“Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a world in whic...”
“Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.”
“Grown tall, like a ruddy weed, on his food.”
“DoyouhaveahardtimefindingSteves dick? she enunciated, enjoying Marys extreme discomfort. Hes big as a fuckin house so I imagine it might be a bit of a problem. The New Jersey accent that was still ...”
“She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmos...”
“Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.”
