Forgiveness is not always easy. At times it feels more painful than the wound we suffered to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.
Frustration although quite painful at times is a very positive and essential part of success.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it.
He was living in an age much more dangerous more painful much more on the edge than our own particular age.
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
Through humor you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter no matter how painful your situation might be you can survive it.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy by suspicions and fear by burst of anger and quarrels.
I've just been growing right along. It's painful but it's a great pain and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first but after a couple of months and after that diet you're looking so hot.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times it feels more painful than the wound we suffered to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone I know but mine was plain weird.