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The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try… — Orson Scott Card
Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure. — Mother Teresa
God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices. — Marvin J. Ashton
Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage… — Margaret Atwood
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight… — John Ruskin
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. — James R Newman
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,… — Eric Hoffer
Memories have to be our most painful blessing. — Kanye West
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. — Oliver Herford
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? — Charles Dickens
The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them… — Ray LaMontagne
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty… — Hannah Arendt
Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle… — Marat Safin
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful… — Doris Humphrey
Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had… — Maxim Gorky
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that… — Wassily Kandinsky
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to… — Diana Wynne Jones
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is… — Emile M. Cioran
From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch. — Dwyane Wade
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed,… — Martin Dugard
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read
Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated… — David Foster Wallace
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of… — H. L. Mencken
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be… — Michael Bloomberg

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