“If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”

“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.”

“It seems love is the root of all pain and most of its fruit only leaves a bitter taste behind.”

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.”

“It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”