#pain

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#action film #bad #basically #buys #copied

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain. ↗

— Kevin DeYoung

#leadership #leadership

There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams. ↗

— Jennifer St. Giles

#pain #stolen-dreams #dreams

We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#death #dreams #love #pain #war

Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself but others. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#compassion #defensiveness #emotional-pain #forgiveness #anger

Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#hurt #leaving #life #pain #life

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#challenge #choices #decisions #hard #life

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#joy #love #pain #friendship

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#grief #pain #time #time-passing #equality

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#distress #jesus #pain #experience