Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=87&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)
Quoted in the Homily for the beatification of Edvige Carboni https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/06/15/190615b.html by Cardinal Becciu (15 June 2019).
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=87&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992)
“If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Revelation
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
The Bridge
Song lyrics, The Captain & the Kid (2006)
“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
Xi Jinping (1953) General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China
As quoted in "China’s Xi pledges peaceful ties with Taiwan in meeting" http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/02/26/2003555737 in Taipei Times (26 February 2013). <br class="br">2010s
Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician
"A Case of You" from Blue
Songs
Source: Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics
“But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G.H.B., st. 7 (1824).
“Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 253 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims