Painful Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

  James E. Faust

  Adversity, Refiner's Fire

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• The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

  Judd Gregg

  Government, Long, Choices

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• I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Addiction

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• Live what you love, and love what you live.
  Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

  Ralph Marston

  Waste, And Love, Frustrating

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• Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Beautiful, Art, Truthful

  "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.

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• Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

  Michael Chabon

  Stories, World, Stuff

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• Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Stories, Fingers

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• For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Thorough Knowledge, Shy

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.309, Shambhala Publications

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• In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

  Lance Armstrong

  Painful Moments, Wonder, Curious

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• Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Climbing, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Dream, Love Life, Loving Life

  " A constitution penned by lawyers, not poets" by Theodore Zeldin, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.

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• Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

  Gary Zukav

  Emotional, People, Use

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 11, 2015

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• John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists as well. His poet's eye for detail seamlessly merges with a born storyteller's gift for narrative. Fate Moreland's Widow gives voice to those who endured one of the most painful and neglected chapters in American history.

  Ron Rash

  Eye, Fate, Voice

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• I can't think of one other thing I do that even begins to compare to the joy I feel as a mom. The job is a labor of love. There are days that are painful and test you for sure, and then there are those glorious days where you pass with flying colors.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Mom, Jobs, Thinking

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• We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Memories, Two, Mind

  Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

  Julie Kagawa

  Scar

  Julie Kagawa (2014). “The Eternity Cure”, p.222, Harlequin

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• It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Gratitude, Heart, Forever

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• I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

  Alex Kingston

  Baby, Successful, Thinking

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• For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Country, Grief, Believe

  "Hoffman blasts Bush's war plans". www.theage.com.au. February 06, 2003.

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• We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.

  Dane Cook

  Lying, Cry

  "Dane Cook: Vicious Circle", 2006.

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• Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion.

  Derek Hough

  Bullying, Boys, Emotional

  "Derek Hough Opens Up About Bullying Past: They Had 'A Gun to My Head'" by Stephanie Webber, www.usmagazine.com. October 18, 2014.

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• When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

  Peter Mullan

  Comedy, Turns

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• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  Kat Dennings

  Teenage, Hood, I Can

  "Charlie Bartlett - Kat Dennings interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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