Top 1200 Painful Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.

If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Things don't just fall into place because you have a dream. You're always going to have those negative thoughts. Our minds love to play with us - we're going to be our own worst critics - but I just say to myself, 'File it back.' I just try to bring any negative thoughts to light and deal with them, so I can file them away.

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

Dancing hurts, like physically is painful, but being the Bachelor is an emotionally - it's a lot of emotional pain.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.

These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

You don't want to block your thoughts, emotions, and so on; nor do you want to chase after them. If you chase after them, if you let them lead you, they begin to define you, and you lose your ability to respond openly and spontaneously in the present moment. On the other hand, if you attempt to block your thoughts, your mind can become quite tight and small.

The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.

Write down your fears. Write down your thoughts. Write down the feelings you want to have. Just release it, don't ignore it. It's a lot easier said than done, but once you start practicing some of those things, you'll realize that you have a lot more control over your thoughts, your feelings.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

Automation will significantly change many people's lives in ways that may be painful and enduring.

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.

It's painful when you see your boyfriend flirting with some girl or you know he's been with somebody on the road.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.