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• Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

  Jimmy Carter

  Failure, Reality, Challenges

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press

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• When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, One Day, Catharsis

  Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Waiting, Answers

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.54, Random House

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• God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Essentials, Use, Sovereign

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.39, Moody Publishers

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• The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

  Saint Augustine

  Long, Soul, Doe

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.151, OUP Oxford

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• It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Memories, Regret, Crazy

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.90, Seven Stories Press

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Pain, People

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• Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Hurt, Moving, Shifting

  Suzanne Brockmann (2008). “Into the Fire: A Novel”, p.254, Ballantine Books

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• Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Believe, Knowing

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• Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

  William Hazlitt

  Mean, Passion, Writing

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”, p.9

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• You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

  Richelle Mead

  Jokes

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.326, Zebra Books

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• Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

  Roger Zelazny

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Soul, Principles

  "The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell".

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• I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Writing, Sleep, Feelings

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• It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

  John Galsworthy

  Spring, Men, May

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.114, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—” The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. “I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.

  Marissa Meyer

  Sorry, Lying, Fall

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• you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Silence, Peaceful

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• Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!

  Kiersten White

  Teacher, Fighting, Self

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• Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Men, Example

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.98

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• It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.

  John Green

  Rising Up, Joy, Looks

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• You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

  Ken Kesey

  Inspirational, Fog, Choices

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Home, Oasis

  "Woodsy's World of Star Wars: My Q+A with Fanboys Screenwriter Ernest Cline!!". Interview with Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2011.

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• There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

  David Viscott

  Beauty, Strong, Pain

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• This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

  T. S. Eliot

  Joy, Moments, Pierce

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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