"Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord."
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"Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not."
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"Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black."
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"...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad."
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"Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on."
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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."
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"There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were."
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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."
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"It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made."
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"Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it."
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"The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness."
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"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."
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"The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor."
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"God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful."
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"Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it."
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"What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it."
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"This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy."
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"I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so."
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"He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death."
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"I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else."
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