Painful Quotes
To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.
Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.
I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.
Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.
There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible
Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.
In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.
I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.