#pain

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#believe #black #book #bother #difficult

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#hurt #i #just #now #pain

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#could #family #i #i wish #most

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#going #gold #i #love is #only

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#body #happiness #mind #pained #troubled

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#evils #happened #how #much #never

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#pain #strong #worse

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

#always #around #artist #contemporary #contemporary life

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life. ↗

— David Johansen

#bought #canvas #compelled #creatively #day

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds