Painful Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
  A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
  The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say
  And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is..,
  it never fades away

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Love Is, Touching, Affection

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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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• Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

  Chita Rivera

  Looking Back

  "Chita Rivera's Life Hits Broadway as a Musical". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 11, 2005.

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• Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

  Sharon Stone

  Divorce, Complicated, Grows

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Soldier, Unions, Territory

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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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• Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.

  Deane Juhan

  Self, Hands, Medicine

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• I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.

  Hermann Hesse

  Writing, Feet, Skirts

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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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• Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

  Joel Dicker

  Book, Writing, Loving Someone

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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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• But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Perfect, Catholic

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• There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fall, Justice, Accountability

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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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• Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Stupid, Giving, Racist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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