So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
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