#pain

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#drawing #i #i think #inborn #just

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? ↗

— James Thomson

#boast #creation #gay #hers #hues

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#better #breathing #feel #felt #go

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then. ↗

— Lindsay Wagner

#alive #back #because #could #express

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#getting #just #lose #loses #make

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#between #brass #coffee #film #houses

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#ballet #both #choose #go #his

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. ↗

— Roger Waters

#blind #body #death #dim #fall

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. ↗

— Emma Watson

#been #bros #conflict #difficult #education