If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward. — Madi Diaz Copy Share Image
Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Love is like a rose. It looks perfect, beautiful, and flawless, but when you hold it...it's actually quite painful. — Dyllan Copy Share Image
There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to… — William Styron Copy Share Image
We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
He tried to let her know it would be all right. Eventually. Life wouldn't always be this painful. The world wouldn't always… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Do you know what happened to the last person who took that tone with me? (Xypher) Let me guess…Disembowelment. Probably painful. Definitely… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
“love is like allopathic medicine...it gives happy very soon but it's side effects are so painful...” — Arya vidhan Copy Share Image
It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the… — Eric Ladin Copy Share Image
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
PaiNful LiNes By Rejected Lover:- She was ready to die wheN I cry But Now she is Not eveN ready to cry… — Babloo Copy Share Image
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist.… — Christopher Mintz-Plasse Copy Share Image
The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones. — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
As painful as it may seem, sometimes you're supposed to fall in love with someone, but not meant to be with them — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Meeting you, getting attached to you and then having to watch you leave was probably one of the most painful things I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
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