Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. A. Salvatore

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

R. A. Salvatore

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

R. A. Salvatore

There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

Quincy Jones

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

Primo Levi

They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species - we, in short - had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act.

Polly Toynbee

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

Polly Toynbee

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

Plutarch

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

Plutarch

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

Plutarch

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

Plutarch

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

Plutarch

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

Plutarch

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

Pierce Brosnan

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

Phillips Brooks

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

Philip Yancey

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

Philip Yancey

The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure,

Philip Yancey

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.

Philip Yancey

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

Philip Yancey

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.

Pope Benedict XVI

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

Mike Ferguson

Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

Nathaniel Branden

Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.

Nathaniel Branden

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

Nathaniel Branden

To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.

Nathaniel Branden

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

Nathaniel Branden

Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunlight is painting.