Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of ideas and beliefs have led to their suffering. Many patients want to get rid of their painful feelings, but they do not want to get rid of their beliefs, the viewpoints that are the very roots of their feelings.
Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.
Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.
I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.
the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.
Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.
The downsides of globalization are indeed painful,. . . But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.
It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.
It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.
It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of desires. But if you die alert, in that alertness not only the body dies, all desires evaporate. Then there is no entering into a womb. Then entering a womb is such a painful process, it is so painful that consciously you cannot do it; only unconsciously you can do it.
Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!