Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.
It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.
It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.
I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
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.
The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you.
We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.
I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.
Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.