#pain

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#first-rate #more #painting #second-rate #soup

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#cities #colors #dwell #give #heard

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ↗

— Kenji Miyazawa

#embrace #fuel #journey #must #our

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#am #become #being #flowers #following

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#heart #old #pain #stir #through

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ↗

— Hypatia

#after #believes #child #fables #fantasies

I don't think you should exploit your own pain. ↗

— Laura Linney

#i #own #pain #should #think

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#better #cooler #hammered #head #just

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain. ↗

— Saul Kripke

#pain #sensation