Barbara O'Neal Quotes

It’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain.

Barbara O'Neal

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• The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Political
  • Freedom

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Problem
  • Pain
  • Hell

• I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Freedom
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • Control
  • Pain

• I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Pain
  • Medical

• What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• My purpose is far greater than my pain.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Pain
  • Purpose
  • Far

• Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • She
  • Light

• He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain

• Romanticism, like the Rousseauist Swinging Sixties, misunderstands the Dionysian as the pleasure principle, when it is in fact the gross continuum of pleasure-pain. Worshiping nature and seeking political and sexual freedom, Romanticism ends in imaginative entrammelment of every kind. Perfect freedom is intolerable and therefore impossible.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Political
  • Freedom

• All wishes are not idle, nor in vain fulfilment we devise - for pain is pain, not for itself to be desired, but ill; or else to strive or to subdue the will alike were graceless; and of Evil this alone is deadly certain: Evil is.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Evil

• We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Waves

• To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

  

  Edward Young
  • Pain
  • Smile

• Every marathon starts with that first mile. But somewhere around mile 16 or 18 - trust me on this - your feet are killing you, you're not sure you can breathe anymore, your mind is frazzled, your body wracked with pain, and all you want to do is stop.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Mind
  • Stop
  • Pain

• We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Pain
  • Depression

• I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • Pain

• Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

  

  Max Lucado
  • God
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain. Throughout my childhood, I was constantly trying to protect her from my father.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Trying
  • War
  • Mother

• If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Gods

• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  

  Cecil O. Samuelson
  • Attention
  • Responsibility
  • Effort

• It’s not about comparison, as my counselor used to say. My pain is my pain.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Pain
  • Comparison