Always Quote by Bob Greene

Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Flannery O'Connor

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

— Orrin Woodward

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily…

— Marcus Aurelius

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear…

— Marcus Aurelius

...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation…

— Frithjof Schuon

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

— Seneca the Younger

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding,…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

— Clarence Thomas

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this…

— Oscar Wilde

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness…

— Jane Austen

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

— Christian Nestell Bovee