Pain
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All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives — the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair'. But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.