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Painful things are quickly forgotten. -- Janet Morris
It's Painful Experiences... That Makes You Wise! -- Ibrahim Khidair Ali
Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie. -- Bryant McGill
To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible. -- Maureen Connolly
Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial. -- Kedar Joshi
Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth. -- Anthony de Mello
Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories. -- Jung Woo
Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life. -- Gary Zukav
There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one! -- Barbara Holland
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. -- Paulo Coelho
Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly! -- Kiersten White
Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once -- Harlan Coben
Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve. -- Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. -- Marianne Williamson
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. -- Saint Augustine
Do not consider painful what is good for you. -- Euripides
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. -- Coco Chanel
Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know. -- Amy Poehler
Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is. -- Lisa See
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. -- George Orwell
Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure. -- Mother Teresa
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein
Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both. -- Kristin Kreuk
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. -- Denis Waitley
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. -- Ernest Hemingway
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -- Anais Nin
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. -- C. S. Lewis
Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this. -- Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. -- Bill Cosby
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget. -- Paul Gillmor
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. -- George Orwell
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. -- Louie Giglio
So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone. -- Corey Taylor
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 heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer. -- Bryant H. McGill
This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. -- Lysa TerKeurst
A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful. -- Theodore Zeldin
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. -- Gloria Steinem
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. -- Maya Angelou
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. -- Bo Bennett
Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. -- Diane Ackerman
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. -- Roger Bannister
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. -- Adrienne Rich
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared. -- Merlin Olsen
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. -- Amy Bloom
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. -- Sophia Loren
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts. -- Angelina Jolie
A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences. -- Gary Zukav
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something. -- Dave Grohl
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy. -- Sherry Turkle
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. -- Jonathan Cain
People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus. -- Christian Louboutin
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this. -- Giles Andreae
There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinking the night before - ever. You can celebrate after with some bubbly. Second is make sure to use shoe insoles. I don't care if you are a guy or a girl, dress shoes are painful. Worth it, but painful. -- Ross Mathews
To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive. -- Ai Weiwei
Romantic love is painful. -- will.i.am
Growth is a painful process. -- Wilma Mankiller
Saving was slow and painful. -- William Christopher Handy
That's painful always to lose. -- Rafael Nadal
Cos every breath is unbearably painful -- Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive... -- William Styron
Lack of understanding is always painful. -- Byron Katie
Life is painful, suffering is optional. -- Sylvia Boorstein
Growth is often a painful process. -- Elbert Hubbard
Obedience is less painful than regret. -- Christine Caine
It's a shame stupidity isn't painful. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
The life of men is painful. -- Euripides
Life is painful to be meaningful. -- Kedar Joshi
When it's personal and painful, humble yourself. -- James MacDonald
It's painful to consider anything but writing. -- Emma Donoghue
But without painful experiences, we dont grow -- Betty Williams
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
Surviving is much more painful than death. -- Tom Clancy
Loneliness is more painful than being hurt -- Eiichiro Oda
That which is painful sharpens one's love. -- Andrew Davidson
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom. -- Michel de Montaigne
Divorce is probably as painful as death. -- William Shatner
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! -- Lord Byron
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Looking back doesn't have to be painful. -- Chita Rivera
Living too long exacts a painful price. -- Mason Cooley
Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful. -- Mason Cooley
Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained -- Dan Brown
My joy is as painful as my pain. -- Fernando Pessoa
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities. -- Oliver Goldsmith
It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun. -- Robin Black
Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious. -- Vince Clarke
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. -- Ross Perot
People die because they find living too painful. -- Malcolm Fraser
Falling in love is painful on the knees. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Why do we wear them? They're so painful. -- Emma Thompson
The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Memories have to be our most painful blessing. -- Kanye West
Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends. -- Sidney Poitier
I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. -- Ian Somerhalder
May your heart be joyful to overcome painful situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. -- Eugene Ionesco
This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high. -- William McKeen
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Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye. -- Taylor Swift
Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one. -- Gary Zukav
Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions. -- Albert Ellis
I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy. -- Chelsea Manning
Even a painful longing is some form of presence. -- Anna Kamienska
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. -- Jules Verne
Where belief is painful we are slow to believe. -- Ovid
Beyond the limit of pain, it is longer painful. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. -- Alice Walker
It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs. -- Nizar Qabbani
Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. -- Charlotte Pearson
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. -- Salman Rushdie
I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood. -- Kat Dennings
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica. -- Thomas Beecham
Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden. -- Gerda Weissmann Klein
Honesty can be painful, but it's always better than bullshit. -- RC deWinter
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance -- Robert Blair

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