#painful

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

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fiction #henry #henry james #james #mr

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #completely #confident #go #hopeless

Growth is a painful process. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#painful #process

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#college #daughter #day #debt #door

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later. ↗

— Michael Medved

#california #course #defeat #four #governor

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#exception #glorious #how #painful

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #better things #courage #effort #energy

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#halting #insignificant #most #painful #people

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours. ↗

— James Taylor

#becomes #boring #controls #filling #hours