#pain

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#complain #more #painful #than #those

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#get #give #give me #going #i

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#infinitely #minute #painting #part #personality

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#another #because #causing #depends #disruption

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#certain #certain degree #clearest #degree #distinct

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling. ↗

— Eric Davis

#i #lot #negative #painless #rather

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection? ↗

— Mother Teresa

#faith #hurt-feelings #joy #love #pain

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#painting #portrait #serious #styles #two

You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#death #forgiveness #god #heaven #death

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it. ↗

— Otto Dix

#create #desire #doing #got #i