Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Samuel Johnson

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Samuel Johnson

Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

Samuel Johnson

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

Samuel Johnson

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

Robert Ballard

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

Robert Anton Wilson

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

Rob Lowe

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting,

Rob Lowe

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

Richard Lovelace

As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.

Richard M. Nixon

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard M. Nixon

No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.

Rebecca Miller

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

Richard Russo

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Ricardo Montalban

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

Rich Lowry

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

Rebecca Wells

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Robert Delaunay

Nature engenders the science of painting

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Roald Dahl

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Roald Dahl

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Richard Pryor

All humor is rooted in pain.

Richard Rohr

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

Richard Rohr

The Gospel gives our suffering personal and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others, and finally, by connecting us to the very pain of God.

Richard Rohr

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

Richard Rohr

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

Richard Rohr

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

Richard Rohr

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

Richard Rohr

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

Richard Rohr

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Richard Rohr

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

Richard Krajicek

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

Tullian Tchividjian

Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.