We all feel pain in some way. Some of us only emotionally, while others in every way. We all treat it like a bad thing, but pain is really fighting to get back what just was broken.
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I made some strong swings. No pain, no pain at... YADIER MOLINA Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. ... ALBERT SCHWEITZER We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. ALBERT EINSTEIN This is going to take some time. And all we're asking is that people give us just a few days to get ... LARRY KOCOT If someone talks bad about us, we feel bad. If someone talks good about us we feel good. The questio... ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in... WILLIAM BLAKE There is no right or wrong in our view of the world. But, if my view causes me emotional pain, then ... CHRISTOPHER SHEA Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi... GEORGE ORWELL I was really nervous. . . . You sort of trust your swing and let it go. We had to have it. Hopefully... 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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. I... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. BOB DYLAN Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it th... LAURENCE OLIVIER now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out... HAYLEY WILLIAMS We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others. JODI PICOULT Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise. ALAN BRADLEY We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The bi... KATE MCGAHAN It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain... J.A. REDMERSKI I think maybe some games in the past, we lost our focus and let some teams back in. Miami, they kind... CAMERON BENNERMAN People reached out and gave millions to a cause. This is in our own backyard. We feel this pain. We ... DEION SANDERS We stayed in it and we kept fighting back and fighting back. We missed some free throws down the str... BRIAN RUSH It's pretty bad. I don't know what to say. Nobody's used to this, nobody in here wants to get used t... MARK ROMAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horribl... SARAH J. MAAS Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warni... ELIZABETH THORNTON Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br... FULTON J. SHEEN In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in ord... HARRY A. BLACKMUN We took some good shots, they just didn't fall. It took us a while to get in a groove. Defensively w... EDDIE TALLEY Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things ... ERICA BAUERMEISTER One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground? TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN' A strike is a tough thing to do, but it is the only way we can get these hospitals to understand wha... BEVERLY GRIFFITH Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful ... LAUREN OLIVER We've just got to find some way to get it all on the same page. If we can get it going on the same d... BRITTANY WILKINS An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some schol... MATTHEW PEARL Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put... 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sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they go... JOHN BENTHAM Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we ha... MARLEE MATLIN Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that w... SYLVIA PLATH Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We ju... PETER SENGE Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN I thought it was good for us to get back together, and get their minds off what had happened. The th... BUBBA DAVIS The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pra... BRYANT MCGILL Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain. JAMES A. AUTRY Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so muc... JAMES BALDWIN
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I cry in the most joyful of moments. It's not tears of joy, either, it's the idea of knowing it won'... KAYLA RAE You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ... KAYLA RAE We are nothing alike, but exactly the same. KAYLA RAE You go on saying we're the same mind split perfectly in two. You go on saying we're practically join... KAYLA RAE No. The hardest word to say. KAYLA RAE We cry. We cry when we reach happiness, anger, sadness, all emotions. KAYLA RAE Another man's heart is full of hardships. Mine is easier. So is yours. With knowledge I see that onl... KAYLA RAE I change hearts now and then. Absorbing the life of another man. That is my peek reasoning and when ... KAYLA RAE It is expression that leads to modification. It is keeping it all inside that leads to frustration. ... KAYLA RAE She is saddest when she smiles; happiest when she cries. KAYLA RAE You can that one man insult you and hurt you and you can let that dwell in your mind forever or you ... KAYLA RAE I'll hear his words and wonder what inspired him to say, but never does her share. I ask and ask, bu... KAYLA RAE Philosophy; my favorite word. We all have our own buried inside and it only takes a moment to find. KAYLA RAE Don't you sit and wonder why a word is spoken? Don't you sit and ask why something is that way? Don'... KAYLA RAE The strength of just one good, love, is far stronger than that of all the evils bound together. KAYLA RAE Do you ever think about sorrow and joy? Do you picture the two, side by side? Do you guess and figur... KAYLA RAE I'm really close to the cliff, but I know there's someone closer to falling over the edge. KAYLA RAE I wake up and start to cry, no mater who is there to see. I think of love, the lost and the found, a... KAYLA RAE I roll into pure thought and sit and sulk at the wall. Tears don't, usually, come pouring from my ey... KAYLA RAE None of us FAIL, but many of us DON'T SUCCEED. The two are completely different. If you try, which a... KAYLA RAE You see the night sky and billions of stars stare down at you. In their eyes there are billions of p... KAYLA RAE If you're are reading this and you love someone who's not yet yours, then get up and chase after the... KAYLA RAE When a man chooses to be solemn, do not tell them to afraid, allow to be prosperous. KAYLA RAE Every dream starts off small. You might throw wads of paper into a trashcan or sing songs to your fa... KAYLA RAE I've cried talking to you... over the phone. You say you hated it, but will you ever see me cry wher... KAYLA RAE I hate it when something is undone. When a bond or strength is broken. When it all unwinds. When eve... KAYLA RAE If there's something you need to say, just say it. If it all goes wrong, it will all blow over and s... KAYLA RAE You will love someone and not let go. They might not ever notice you. And even you finally come toge... KAYLA RAE Jealousy. So strong. So powerful. But so hard to control. It will eat away at your mind. Destroy you... KAYLA RAE Pain is just fighting to get back what just was broken. KAYLA RAE If I were to say, "I love you." what would you do? Probably go squeal in your bedroom or burst the n... KAYLA RAE I cry when I think of you....... Doesn't that seem like the sweetest thing in the whole world; to he... KAYLA RAE What brings you knowledge, strength, experience, brings you success. KAYLA RAE Yes. We say, but don't live up to it. KAYLA RAE A perfect life isn't the mastery of it, but making mistakes and moving on. KAYLA RAE Eyes are there not only to see what's visual for all else, but to see beyond the walls in the maze o... KAYLA RAE Share you wit for nothing bad will come; share your will for nothing good will come. KAYLA RAE The rarest thing you'll ever see is exactly what I'm doing right now. KAYLA RAE I've been dying for this day to come, but now that is has past and I've said what I wanted to I will... KAYLA RAE "The biggest mistake is throwing them all away..."
People throw away all their F's and keep all thei... KAYLA RAE We all have three sides. We show one when we're with our friends and another when around our family.... KAYLA RAE And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds. RAE LA RAE Regardless of what path we take through space and through life, it’s important to remember that we... KAYLA SEVERSON What would my first sergeant do if he came across me and another girl getting it on? He'd want pictu... KAYLA WILLIAMS I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an inters... KAYLA TAUSCHE At that point, I realized that I could see myself in all things… objects, people, places, experien... KAYLA SEVERSON The more we realize that we are only separated by the membrane of our own limiting and dividing beli... KAYLA SEVERSON An improving credit landscape means fewer loans are delinquent - and fewer people are needed to serv... KAYLA TAUSCHE Everything from Washington's handling of the N.S.A., as well as Apple launching a new iPhone. Th... KAYLA TAUSCHE When SoFi launched in 2011, it focused squarely on the burgeoning student loan market - a market tha... KAYLA TAUSCHE We just kept our cool. We didn't lose our heads. KAYLA PARKER IGNORANCE is HEADACHE KAYLA RAECHAL Live television invites a lot of comic relief, and I've definitely had my share. I got tongue-tw... KAYLA TAUSCHE April Fool is widely considered one of the top yachts ever built by Feadship, the famed Dutch shipya... KAYLA TAUSCHE "starve"
Ana said,
and so she did.
"live"
The angel said,
and so she did. KAYLA MARIE In a world full of 'WHYs?', a word to the wise - WHY NOT? KAYLA MORYOUSSEF The only thing in life that I can count on to be infinitely challenging are human beings. KAYLA MORYOUSSEF You're missing out if you think i'm nothing worth trying for, my beauty ain't the only thing i consi... KAYLA CUILLERIER Move on fast, kiss my a*s KAYLA HANSELL Perhaps that is what I like about these moments of leisurely insight, that come while lying comforta... KAYLA SEVERSON "When you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you will be successful." -Eric Thomas... KAYLA HELMS I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience.... KAYLA KRANTZ It's one thing to be bitter about the circumstances of your birth, but another to drill your bittern... KAYLA KRANTZ As we more easily get in touch with others, we seem to lose touch with ourselves. We can’t solve a... 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KAYLA KRANTZ Certainly, some of the anti-bank rhetoric has shifted a little bit, but on either side of the aisle,... KAYLA TAUSCHE I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so ... KAYLA EWELL It reminded him of the truth—who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his pa... KAYLA KRANTZ Staffing branches with tellers can be considered a premium service in a world where fewer customers ... KAYLA TAUSCHE At Bank of America, customers shunned a product that offered fee-free checking without access to bra... KAYLA TAUSCHE Imagination seems to come fast and true in the morning and evening light, the bookends of the day, s... KAYLA SEVERSON In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of ... KAYLA SEVERSON The moods he's shown me have all been vastly different...as different as summer and winter, sometime... 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ISSA RAE Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at... ISSA RAE The Internet has provided small communities for racism online, and people feel free to do it. Ultima... ISSA RAE It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black m... ISSA RAE I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not ... ISSA RAE You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to priv... ISSA RAE I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are th... ISSA RAE Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i... ISSA RAE The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're... ISSA RAE Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends... ISSA RAE The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the bl... ISSA RAE It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a hor... ISSA RAE I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some re... ISSA RAE People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color. ISSA RAE I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder. ISSA RAE A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one fami... PATRICIA RAE One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace... PATRICIA RAE You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into yo... PATRICIA RAE As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't ... ISSA RAE Most of the players are Alex McLeish signings and we want to do well for him, as well as ourselves, ALEX RAE He was the guy who gave us our chance and we want to do well for him. I'm sure we can turn things ar... ALEX RAE It will be nice to play against my old club again. I look back fondly at my time there, that club wa... ALEX RAE Everyone at the club was disappointed with the Hibs defeat, so it is crucial we bounce back against ... ALEX RAE Most of the boys are walking around in a daze in there. We thought we had done enough to win but the... ALEX RAE Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill. RAE CARSON Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I... RAE CARSON I'm a social media addict. ISSA RAE I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was blac... ISSA RAE Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoe... ISSA RAE I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set o... ISSA RAE If you give up, it's over. But if you press on, you will either discover the rewards of persisting t... LETICIA RAE You look beautiful," Alodia says. I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I’m beautiful ... RAE CARSON It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outsid... ISSA RAE Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot... ISSA RAE When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway NICOLE RAE A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself RAE ARMANTROUT I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imag... RAE CARSON I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love... DAPHNE RAE But I can say one thing -- I will not say a negative word about anyone on this platform. BOB RAE Love is stronger than hate. BOB RAE This was a mass murder. This was a bombing attack carried out on Canadian civilians and the conseque... BOB RAE