Painful Quotes - Page 38

• Growth is often a painful process.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Growth, Process

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

  Pema Chodron

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

  Marianne Williamson

  Friday, Easter, Heart

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 06, 2012

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• We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Life, Change, Buddhist

  Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.18, Penguin

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• Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Journey, Goal

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• Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

  Tim Gunn

  Grief, Thinking, People

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• Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.

  Gary Zukav

  Awareness, States

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 09, 2017

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• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fighting, Warrior

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

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• The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

  Nelson Mandela

  Home, Two, Way

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• Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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• Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Winning, Night

  "Hatton Gives Back His IBF Title". news.bbc.co.uk. April 14, 2006.

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• Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

  Monica Denise Brown

  Love, Dream, Know How

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• You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

  Ralph Marston

  Regret, Going Away, Done

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• Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

  Sidney Poitier

  Race, Racism, Ends

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• It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

  Ralph Ellison

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Expectations

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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• Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

  Taylor Swift

  Goodbye, Ends

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• To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

  Eugene Ionesco

  World, Ridiculous, Absurd

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• Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

  Pema Chodron

  Perspective, Patient, Joyful

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

  Carl Jung

  Achievement, Growth, Mind

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 340, 1928.

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• Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

  Amy Poehler

  Book, Feet, Self

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• Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

  Fred Rogers

  Honesty, Trying, Truth Is

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.26, Penguin

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• Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

  Carly Simon

  Life, Dream, Painful Moments

  "Carly Simon charts new course with Brazilian-inspired CD" by Charles J.Gans, www.foxnews.com. May 08, 2008.

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• If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

  Tom Petty

  Love, Long, Skins

  Song: Rhino Skin

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