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• 1972 - Jean Dujardin
• 1904 - Lester Cole
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• Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.

  J.D. Stroube

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Pain, Painful, Inspiration

• Pain is temporary…Quitting last forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Pain, Painful, Inspiration

• The most painful kind of loneliness is feeling inadequate to express to others what you feel inside yourself.

  Rick Warren

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Painful

• The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

  Jonathan Larson

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Pain, Painful

• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Topics in Experience, Wisdom

  Tags in Learning, Painful

• I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Ambition, Truth

  Tags in Painful

• However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painful, Character, Existence

• However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

  Frantz Fanon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painful, Accept, Destiny

• We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: ‘Freedom is not free.’ It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

  Paul Gillmor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Painful

• It’s interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn’t going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

  Frank Langella

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interesting, Painful, Exciting

• No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

  Bernard Lagat

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter, Painful

• The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one’s patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Painful, Helpful

• It’s also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we’re better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  Barbara Hershey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Painful

• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moral, Painful

• There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Painful

• The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that’s the good part.

  Sylvia Browne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painful

• You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

  Corazon Aquino

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Journey, Painful

• We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Topics in History

  Tags in Painful

• What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

  William Glasser

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Painful

• Saving was slow and painful.

  William Christopher Handy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saving, Painful