Quotes with painful

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  • Henry Ward Beecher Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bernard Lagat No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
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  • Robert Blair Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance!
    The Grave 109
    Robert Blair
    Scottish poet (1699 - 1746)
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  • Merlin Olsen One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Eric Allenbaugh 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.
    Eric Allenbaugh
    American motivator
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  • Thomas Carlyle Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Anais Nin 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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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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.
    Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Roger Bannister The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
    Roger Bannister
    English athlete and physician (1929 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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