Everyone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
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I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From my experience and observing a lot of other people that often times that only happens - a transformational experience or shedding… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in… — Eric Dickerson Copy Share Image
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Razor blade, razor blade lets sing a song Lets erase the pain Even though its wrong. I'll press you against my skin… — Crystal Sawyer Copy Share Image
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tears were dripping onto my dress, but I wasn't making any sound. There was no sound to express thid kind of pain.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
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Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men,… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Around my 40th birthday, I started to have extraordinary pain in my eyes and it was only happening overnight and I couldn't… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
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“I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to… — Fanny Lewald Copy Share Image
We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image