#pain

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. ↗

— John Thorn

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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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I hate painting. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. ↗

— May Sarton

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I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it. ↗

— Evan Davis

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It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. ↗

— Tim Bishop

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