Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever
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but it holds an equal amount of joy.
All that's... JILL ANZINGER The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being... SAMUEL JOHNSON Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you ca... KAHLIL GIBRAN Message from Archangel Raphael today: "Bringing more sweet times into your life heals the heart. Che... KIMBERLY DAWN Now some of you will say that the two are one and the same - happiness and joy - but this is not so.... KELLY LONG You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live. ALEXANDER POPE You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. ALEXANDER POPE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. EURIPIDES The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy. RABINDRANATH TAGORE In dreams we can recreate love, fear, guilt, happiness. In our minds we can create this superficial ... KATE MILLER I will ask no more of life than this: that I might love you through all my days, and that ... ROBERT SEXTON Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know? BON SCOTT Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear... KAHLIL GIBRAN Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves... AWDHESH SINGH Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy. RABINDRANATH TAGORE Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that ... RUCKETT Seeing Neil Entwistle standing accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and only adds to ... JOE FLAHERTY the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is i... TONI MORRISON Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and... MITCH ALBOM No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of inter... JUDITH BROCKLEHURST Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone with m... G. H. KNIGHT Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate de... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from. STEVEN MAGEE Than being in love, I'm more inspired to write poems and quotes when pain eats my heart- sad truth. HENANNIE ZARAGOZA I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: some... CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, ... AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained... TERRY PRATCHETT And the criterion is within you – not in bibles, not in the koran, not in the gita. The criterion ... OSHO There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People yo... MIKE FONTENOT happiness it can come so easily but once its gone its so hard to get back so why do we risk everyday... AMBER FAITH HUN The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it. DONNA LYNN HOPE Never will you understand the pain that is overwhelming my soul. Hiding behind my smile and joyful e... MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO Let go the past. You can’t undo anything. It’s done. Forgive others, forgive yourself, learn fro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Low-grade pain can be so rooted in your being that the pain begins to look like you, and you begin t... BRYANT MCGILL Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so muc... JAMES BALDWIN Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so muc... JAMES LONG We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not ev... YASMIN MOGAHED Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason. PLATEN A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ... CHRIS CORNELL These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another p... CHRISTINA ENGELA There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you ... OPRAH WINFREY A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arte... JAMES JOYCE “Nothing ever remains the Same in Life; Pain, Joy or Love.” MAGED MAHROUS If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you ... MITCH ALBOM What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. AESCHYLUS AESCHYLUS There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. AESCHYLUS There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. JOSEPH ADDISON How did she do it, I'd always wondered. Dancing with Q., I understood. Once in a while the pain fall... LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the lov... JOSEPH CAMPBELL So that you will hear me my words sometimes grow thin as the tracks of the gulls on t... PABLO NERUDA Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It ... WAYNE W. DYER The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still. LORD BYRON She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the m... COCO J. GINGER All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD God’s grace is so much more powerful of a motivator than fear. Love is the deepest motivator. Only... JEFFERSON BETHKE Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear ... SAINT BARTHOLOMEW Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your h... KAHLIL GIBRAN I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being j... MARY LAMBERT every body thinks im this cheerful littel person with a wonderful smile but the truth is i hide behi... AMBER FAITH HUN Not the pain is the most terrifying but the fact that getting used to it you stop feeling joy also..... SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others ... GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE Hope is a dream of which we long to have. 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However I like that feeli... BENJABR, HASSAN Realm swayed and put his hand over his heart, watching after her. A sharp pain from knowing that you... SUZANNE YOUNG Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being a... J.K. ROWLING There are two main emotions that humans possess, fear & love. Fear keeps you from finding joy, happi... CELESTINE L. GRAY If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, e... RALPH MARSTON The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Being loved continuously when you believe that you're unlovable is like throwing salt on a wound. It... CHRISTA BLACK It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hop... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Investors have an interest in knowing actual brokerage and other management costs, and, and in being... CHRISTOPHER COX ...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound. MELODY BEATTIE Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more t... ZIGGY MARLEY
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Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t... NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway. NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe... NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found. NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy... NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, ... NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri... NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp. NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic... NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a... NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ... NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th... NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi... NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge... NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l... NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu... NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe... NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ... NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ... NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge... NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w... NEIL GAIMAN