#pain

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. ↗

— Peter Singer

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When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours. ↗

— Peter Singer

#behaviour #cause #change #experience #fish

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#bestows #bliss #end #immortal #in the beginning

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting. ↗

— Grace Slick

#easy #obscure #painting #really #rock

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter. ↗

— Patti Smith

#fact #i #in fact #painter #thought

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. ↗

— John French Sloan

#condemned #eager #energy #every #good

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#autobiography #i #i write #life #my life

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment. ↗

— Peter Steele

#agree #cry #deal #disappointment #feel

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his