Top 1200 Painful Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.

My life has actually been full of challenges and painful moments - but I tried to bury such circumstances and work with complete dedication.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

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's very painful for me to sit back and watch people get sick and die due to preventable lifestyle choices.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.

I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.

If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way.

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in the 1990s.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.

We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.