Pain Quotes - Page 40

• People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, Years, People

  "The star gets down to earth" by Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. September 24, 2005.

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• High heels are pleasure with pain.

  Christian Louboutin

  Fashion, High Heels, Pleasure

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• I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Ideas, Design

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• Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Pride, Grace

  Max Lucado (2012). “Shaped by Grace”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Stories, Privilege

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

  Lorna Luft

  Past, Shadow, Adults

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

  Wangari Maathai

  Jobs, People, Water

  "Farewell Wangari Maathai, you were a global inspiration - and my heroine" by Joseph Kabiru, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.

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• I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Artist, Thinking, Sensitive

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• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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• By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Fathers Day, Hurt, Couple

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Careers, Cures

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• I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

  Sophie Marceau

  Childhood, Adults, Transition

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• Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Struggle, Heart

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• If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Culture, Afros, Serious

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• That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

  Kathy Mattea

  Joy, Earth, Numb

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• In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

  Theresa May

  Tough Times, Tough, Share

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

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• I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

  John Mayer

  Car, People, Looks

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• I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Children, People, Giving

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• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

  Josh McDowell

  Loneliness, Perfect, Promise

  Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.69, Baker Books

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• The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Mind, Different

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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  A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1913). “Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers”

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• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Art, Giving

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• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Delight, Fountain

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”

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• Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pleasure, Ends, Desirable

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

  John Stuart Mill

  Action, Absence, Pleasure

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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