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«There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.»
«The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.»
«Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| About:
Hope,
Humor,
Survival
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«Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.»
Author: Paulo Coelho
| About:
Pain
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forgetting, kind of, painful, suffering, waiting, worse
«We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Doubt,
God
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«There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
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account, broader, broadest, coherent, comprehensive, flexible, fuller, fullers, human beings, immense, longing, painful, This Life
«Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.»
«The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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abandoned, abandonment, forgiven, intact, painful, prefers, proud, reproach, reproached, reproaches, reproaching, self-reproach
«The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
against, assuming, beings, brings, by far, courageous, formidable, honor, human beings, painful, precisely, spiritual, tragedies, weapons
«The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Sacrifice
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