Painful Quotes - Page 17

• Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

  Leslye Headland

  Beautiful, Past, Heartache

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Believe, Reading

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• I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

  Kurt Warner

  Wish, Taught, Mental Toughness

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• It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Terrible, Emancipation, Terrible Things

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• Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.

  Justin Torres

  Memories, Emotional, Childhood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Opposites, Rivers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

  Jim Woodring

  Reality, Vision, Dull

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Journey, Giving, Soul

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone

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• No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Matter, Made

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• The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

  Joel Dicker

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• One thing I've always struggled with in life is loving people too much. It's painful when that love is not reciprocated. But one thing I always comfort myself with is the fact that Allah will always show greater love to those who love Him. Allah doesn't disappoint you so keep your heart attached to Him.

  Omar Suleiman

  Heart, Love Is, People

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from May 30, 2014

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• As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

  J. K. Bharavi

  Medicine, Energy, May

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• I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted other women to know there's no shame in talking about it. People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible painful event.

  Laura Benanti

  Mean, Talking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, Goes On, Ends

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• Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

  James Dyson

  Disappointment, Years, Firsts

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

  Erich Fromm

  Evil, Boredom, Made

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

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• It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Pain, Sibling, Grief

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• One of the most painful things for me was Jay Leno, Jay Leno going back on the air and saying to people that it was a choice between his writing staff and his crew, I think that really hurt a lot of show runners, because it was never a choice between our writers and our crew.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.

  Noma Bar

  Mean, Night, Ideas

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Hero, Problem

  "Dune Genesis". "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, (p. 72), July 1980.

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• It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Lifetime, Feels, Deserve

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

  Kedar Joshi

  Painful Life, Life Is, Superficial

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• Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened.

  Penney Peirce

  Spiritual, Powerful, Light

  Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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