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  • One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
  • At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
  • Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
  • The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
  • It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
  • I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
  • What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
  • We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
  • The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
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  • Gloria Steinem Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Hershey It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Lord George Byron Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Audre Lorde All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anais Nin 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
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Oliver Herford Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • George Eliot But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Madonna Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Alice Walker Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • H. Ross Perot Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • Bo Bennett Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Alfred de Musset How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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