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1856 Painful quotes by 1237 unique authors
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As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of…
— Wayne Dyer
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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.
— Wes Fesler
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Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague…
— Bernard Bolzano
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I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your…
— Bryant H. McGill
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I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really…
— Beyonce Knowles
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This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such…
— Anna Sewell
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Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to…
— Rhonda Byrne
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It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not…
— Danny Glover
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
— Peter Singer
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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
— Horace
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When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of…
— Valerie Harper
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The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is…
— Thomas Sowell
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a…
— Kenneth Clarke
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The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs -…
— Bethany McLean
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Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to…
— Unknown Author
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Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves...…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for…
— Dominic Savio
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Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
— Donald Hall
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in…
— Petrarch
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The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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