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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa
I wrap the potential for bitterness,
resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness
and just set it down.
Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Forgiveness is not a one time thing.
Forgiveness must be practiced again and again in different ways
because we may find many dimensions to the wrongs we have suffered.
Bitterness and resentment are like weeds that can continue to pop up
until we have plucked out the last plant by its roots
and extinguished the last seed.
We must carefully tend the garden of our mind and soul,
lest we be overrun by the weeds of bitterness and regret.
- Carly Foster
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Experience life in all possible ways -
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.
- Osho
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish
there was less immaturity in political thinking.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 F. Kennedy
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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