“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.”
“It seems love is the root of all pain and most of its fruit only leaves a bitter taste behind.”
“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.”
“Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.”