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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about events

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Quote by Francis Bacon

The being without an opinion is so painful to human...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about opinion, nature, human imperfections, being, people

At painful times, when composition is impossible and...

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

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about impossible

If you did well, you were rewarded with middle-class neighborhoods, and I was given a neighborhood with tar-paper shacks, and the people were painfully poor.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, people

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about sadness, events, americans, country

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

Quote by Julio Iglesias about work, public

After immeasurable joy necessarily comes the sadness, joy makesthe blood boil, and this produces an unpleasant and painful feeling that needs to born the sadness. RightWords Translation

Quote by Mihai Eminescu about joy, sadness, blood

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.

Quote by John Dos Passos about friendship, old, olderness

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about succes, animals

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the...

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

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about enthusiasm, fight

To the Moon Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns, I remember how, heavy with sorrow, I climbed this hill to gaze on you, And then as now you hung above those trees Illuminating all. But to my eyes Your face seemed clouded, temulous...

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about light, moon, sadness, youth, memory, tears, pain, eyes, past, hope

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.

Quote by Jean Baptiste Massillon about death, life, moment, day

Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word...

Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about pain, inspiration, word, dream, wisdom, nothing, love

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to...

We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, wisdom, time

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

Quote by Thomas Beecham about music

The wounds of the soul differ from others because they cover themselves, but they do not close; they are always painful, remaining in heart alive and open.

Quote by Alexander Dumas about soul, heart

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