“The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.”
Albert Einstein
“Oh Sweet Bitterness!I will soothe you and heal youI will bring you rosesI too have been covered with thorns.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still”
Oscar Wilde
“Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out”
Yiddish Proverb
“If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you”
“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.”
Terry Brooks
“Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.”
German Proverb
