“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.”
“Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.”
“Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.”