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• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Jealousy, Anger

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• Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

  Teresa of Avila

  Heart, Giving, Wish

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

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• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Children, Science

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Success, Fitness

  "The Spirituality Of Running" by Jim Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2016.

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• My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

  Drew Barrymore

  Anger, One Day, Path

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Past, Track, Achievement

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• No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

  Martha Beck

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Pain

  Martha Beck (2005). “Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith”, p.228, Broadway Books

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Pain, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.454

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• There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Who We Are, Life Is, Longing

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Heaven, Watches, Earth

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• A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Wall, Loneliness, Support

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• I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

  Sara Blakely

  Karma, Shopping, Giving

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• I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

  Mary J. Blige

  Hurt, Couple, Pain

  FaceBook post by Mary J. Blige from Jan 08, 2012

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• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Pain, Reading

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Pain, Unhappy

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• My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Cancer, Grandmother, Two

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• It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

  Jeb Bush

  Love Is, People, Fairs

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• The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.

  Vince Cable

  Pain, Long, Degrees

  "The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means".

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• Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

  Steve Carell

  Children, Memories, People

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• At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

  Kris Carr

  Sugar, Behavior, Beats

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

  Dick Cavett

  Pain, Feet, Years

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• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Pain, Punishment, Catholic

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• It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

  Eric Clapton

  Emotional, Way, Crisis

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• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Laughter, Humor

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