Jane Austen Quotes
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
T. D. Jakes
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Ovid
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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
Dani Shapiro
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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
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Salman Rushdie
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
Gary Zukav
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye West
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
Katey Sagal
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
Queen Latifah
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
Tara Brach
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Rachel Bilson
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I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
Randeep Hooda
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With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
Laura Linney
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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
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Look outside the window, there's a woman being grabbed They've dragged her to the bushes and now she's being stabbed Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody Outside of a small circle of friends.
Phil Ochs
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I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.
Montel Williams
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Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
Andy Griffith
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It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.
Liz Phair
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The onset of fear makes the simplest actions complex and difficult.
David Gemmell
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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Jane Austen