In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful.
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?
Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.
Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.
A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.
The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance
I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price. . . I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
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.
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.
It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.