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01184ff Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. wisdom-in-life pain freedom learning beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life-lessons life wisdom inspirational living-life heal growing flying healing painful flight wisdom-quotes growth hurt wind experience wings hurting C. JoyBell C.
3c4cc99 From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. pain existence life coexist find-a-way haruki-murakam the-wind-up-bird-chronicle murakami intense center japanese painful japan exist purpose Haruki Murakami
fb13b3b At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful? love no-peace not-rather disappointed felt times feeling her what-if painful use in-love Larry McMurtry
14a1507 To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful. painful sensitive Marisha Pessl
e1d3ba1 You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache. pain sadness love painful suffer mystery Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8963081 And for all he had learned to bandage himself up on the outside, the wound remained just as bad and deep as the moment it had been made - when it became obvious that the one male he wanted above all others was never, ever going to be with him. lovers lovesickness painful J.R. Ward
5460d8d Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers. This is painful. unequal-affections the-robber-bride one-sided-love painful sad unrequited-love Margaret Atwood
7d45e39 Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality. woman reality metamorphosis painful wept growth innocence transformation Anaïs Nin
3c78923 "You've obviously never been in love." "I have actually. And . And--always--without hope--I've never had my love reciprocated ever." love unreciprocated-love the-black-prince iris-murdoch painful in-love sad unrequited-love Iris Murdoch
b1fbbf5 Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful. painful Irving Stone
fb14f8a She could not bear the tenderness which a dog would evoke, she did not want the pain of another love. She knew how very much, how desperately, she would love her dog; and dogs are vulnerable and short-lived and die. love the-message-to-the-planet iris-murdoch painful tenderness pets Iris Murdoch
00711e9 The long answer was too time-consuming to give. The short answer was too painful. It went like this. It was a question of what heartbreak is, and how exactly the heart breaks, and what is left of it afterwards. heartbreak heart painful the-only-story julian-barnes Julian Barnes