#pain

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#art #artist #barnett-newman #painting #art

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#challenge #choices #decisions #hard #life

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#joy #love #pain #friendship

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#grief #pain #time #time-passing #equality

Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life. ↗

— Kathryn Vance-Perez

#life-experience #love-hurts #pain #experience

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#pain #sorrow #experience

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden. ↗

— Jerzy Kosiński

#experience

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#collection #experience #happen #later #mistakes

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#experience #hurt #pain #experience

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#behavior #inspirational #life #motivational #pain