Pain Quotes
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.Robert
You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.Mildred & Victor Goertzel
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.Kahlil Gibran
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton
Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.Robert Englund
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Kahlil Gibran
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.Alfred De Musset
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.Thomas Jefferson
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.Samuel Johnson
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.Miguel de Cervantes
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.Nikki Harris
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Author Unknown
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.Blaise Pascal
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
The absence of love is the most abject pain.Herr Lipp
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.John Ruskin
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.Leonardo Da Vinci
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Pablo Picasso
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.Ramble
