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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. – Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967
If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve. – Bryant McGill
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword – Oscar Wilde
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. – Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it. – Albert Einstein
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. – Sydney J. Harris
... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. – Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth. – Mehmet Murat ildan
A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five? – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. – Bharavi
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. – Jewish Proverb
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. – F Scott
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. – Charlotte Bronte
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes. – Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. – R. M. Grenon
I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears? – Dean Koontz
If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything! – Mehmet Murat ildan
If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. – Mary Renault
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world! – John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961

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