#pain

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#despise #fatigue #great #habit #pain

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#handled #ill #moment #pain #patiently

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

#hate #having #i #i feel #i feel like

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management. ↗

— James Belushi

#am #brother #candy #constantly #couple

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#child #eyes #love #pain #same

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#although #essential #frustration #painful #part

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#humor #hurt #laughter #line #pain

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#artists #concern #craft #description #every

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#exaltation #into #less #none #nothing