Painful But Purposeful Quotes & Sayings

God deliver me from the sin o' fornication," Spence gasped, clutching at the sheets of blood that poured from the deep gash in his head. "Have the bastards killed me? — Marsha Canham

Really? Kat's angry? Could it be because you're holding her captive?" The words tasted like acid.
"She attacked several members of my team."
A smile spread across my face. That's my girl. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable. — Malcolm Gladwell

Always foster and grow that unquenchable curiosity of yours." I smiled. That was a promise I fully intended to keep. — Kerri Maniscalco

in the story no one smiles,no lesson is learned.
the narrator can not change any one's heart
the story is agate to another story,which opens onto a story after that.
i made it up but the story is true. — Laura Apol

Jackie?"
"It wasn't your fault. — Tammara Webber

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne. — Robert Burns

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced. — Jonathan Lethem

I am ripe. Ripe enough to hear your Truth. But shout it for one ear remains deaf. — Martin Cosgrove

I have learned over the years that the higher the level of emotion, the lower the level of reasoning. For example, if your emotions are at the highest level of 10, your ability to reason is at a 0. If it's a 9 then your reasoning is a 1. I am not suggesting that emotions don't have their place, but taking actions based purely on emotions is dangerous and could cost you everything. — Eric Thomas

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel. — Jim Stovall

But I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid — Michael Grant

A life outside of Christ is both hard and frightening; a life in Christ has hard edges and dark valleys, but it is purposeful even when painful. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind. — Jack Vance

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm. — Confucius

It is no good wishing for what was not to be. — Celia Rees

I swore I'd never fall for her again. — Kelly Moran