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«My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.»
«It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.»
Author: Henry Rollins
(Actor, Author, Poet, Singer)
| About:
Love,
Solitude
| Keywords:
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«It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
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«No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Excellence,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
excellence, painful, passed, preparation, profession, reached, slow, study
«Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
| About:
Learning,
Pain
| Keywords:
catalyst, catalysts, choosing, effectively, emotional, event, look for, painful, serves, significant, The Catalyst
«Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Experience,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
called, collection, collections, happen, later, mistakes, painful
«I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.»
«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
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«Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again»
«It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things»
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