#painful

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood. ↗

— Kat Dennings

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ↗

— George Eliot

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If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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Saving was slow and painful. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

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I'm painfully middle class. ↗

— Valerie Harper

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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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