#painful

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing? ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#life-and-living #pain #painful-memories #death

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#collection #experience #happen #later #mistakes

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life! ↗

— Brad Paisley

#farm #fun #going #i #i care

You know, through pain, you learn a lot about yourself--things you thought you never knew you wanted to learn. And it's kind of like those animals that regrow a part of their body--like a starfish. You might not feel it. You might not even want to grow, but you will. You'll grow that part that broke off, and that growing, that blooming--cannot happen without the pain. ↗

— Kelle Hampton

#growth-process #life-changes #painful-memories #beauty

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#changed #days #hasn #love #maybe

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

#getting #just #lose #loses #make

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

— Elizabeth Warren

#feel #here #like #painful #part

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

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads

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

#easy #feels #forgive #forgiveness #inflicted