#painful

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#emotions #emptiness #empty #fathomless #jackson-pearce

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#biggest #even #freshman #freshman year #geek

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#although #always #because #bull #bull market

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#anything #around #even #find #laughter

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#being #children #feelings #having #love

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#i #i can #painful #particularly #say

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ↗

— George Eliot

#despair #eagerness #hope #often #only

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#getting #just #lose #loses #make

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#feel #here #like #painful #part

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads