Pastoral Resources

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Satire is focused bitterness.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.