It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.
you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.
Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained
Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.
I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.
Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.
I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.