“My your heart never be bitter as dandelion greens but let it be sweet as honey and flow from your actions”
Stargazer
“Oh Sweet Bitterness!I will soothe you and heal youI will bring you rosesI too have been covered with thorns.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you”
Yiddish Proverb
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
Neil Gaiman
“Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out”
“From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.”
Lucretius
“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
Samuel Johnson
