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My mother raised me and there was some painful and difficult times, because she was pursuing a career and also very actively involved in expressing… — Natasha Richardson
The most painful things and the most happy things in life usually come from love. As a result of love or the lack of it. — Katrina Kaif
Im involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. — Regis Philbin
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use… — Martin Landau
Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just… — Taizan Maezumi
We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to… — David Plotz
But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you. — Karen Maitland
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most… — Eric Rohmer
If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be. — Bobby Heenan
It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but… — Frank Langella
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part. — Sylvia Browne
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! — Lord Byron
Painful things are quickly forgotten. — Janet Morris
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in… — Georges Bataille
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear… — Susan Sontag
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense… — George Eliot
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping… — William James
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has… — Don King
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
Lack of understanding is always painful. — Byron Katie
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. — Anthony de Mello
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners,… — Stanley Baldwin
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience. — Saint Basil
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a… — Robinson Jeffers

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