#pain

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#bringing #into #joy #pain #pieces

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#get #need #off #pain #sharp

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#also #awakening #confusing #consciousness #disorienting

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#joy #lessened #pain #shared

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#beautiful #come #every #felt #field

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #better things #courage #effort #energy

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting. ↗

— Billy Rose

#eats #invest #needs #never #painting

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#pain #wisdom #life

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#good #nothing #painting #such #thing

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate