I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world.... →
Jill Scott
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
Taiye Selasi
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden
I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going... →
Maria Semple
We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion... →
Dani Shapiro
Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to... →
Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing... →
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such... →
William Shatner
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw