Bitterness Quote by Lewis B. Smedes Download Open image “The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.” — Lewis B. Smedes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bitterness Harder Hate Heal
Something which hurt us within seconds takes years, to get over. To heal. — HQLinesTumblr Copy Share Image
But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate. — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
Hate is like a cancer; all it does is spread and spread. The only way to heal it is with love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time heals all wounds but it takes a little push on our part. — Ryaj Ablando Catayas Copy Share Image
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in.… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is this: we… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving,… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share
Be sure there is something waiting for you after much patience, to astonish you to a degree, that you forget the bitterness of the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
