I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.
My joy is as painful as my pain.
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.
Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.
Living too long exacts a painful price.
To this day writing is the most painful thing to do.
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful
Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.
We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
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