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My undergraduate years were explicit job preparation, and I cannot tell you how suffocating and painful it was at times.
The only reason I am who I am is because of my losses, and some of them are extremely painful, but I wouldn't take any of them away, because every time I lose, it takes a really long time for me to lose again because I learn so much from it.
For someone raised in that kind of environment, it's especially painful to see the difficulty the opposing parties have in putting themselves in the other side's shoes even for a moment.
It's painful, messy stuff.
I remember asking Paul if he thought having to say goodbye to a child would make dying even more painful.
I'm forever grateful because Paul's clinicians felt that their job wasn't to try to give us answers they didn't have, or only to try to fix things for us, but to counsel Paul through painful choices ... when his body was failing but his will to live wasn't.
So I made a lot of painful mistakes, and with time, my attitude about those mistakes began to change.
And the puzzles were: What would I do differently in the future so I wouldn't make that painful mistake?
It was one of the most painful experiences of my life ... but it turned out to be one of the greatest experiences of my life because it changed my attitude about decision-making.
You won't change your story overnight; it could take years and be painful.
But embracing those painful memories can lead to new insights and wisdom, to finding that good that sustains you.
Common symptoms, regardless of a person's sex, are unusual discharge, painful urination and itching.
You think it's something painful, or scary, or nasty.
It does not have to be nasty, scary or painful.
Now, that was a painful realization for me and made me realize, if we want to change this, we need to engage, and we need to do better.
They subject themselves to penetration, because penetration is less painful than kisses, caresses and gentle words.
But at some point, because it was too difficult or too painful, we decided to dismiss our natural ability to deal with failure and replace it with a lower acceptance level.
The school teachers weren't having much fun, the sports were very dirty or very painful.
In times of painful injustice, play brings the levity we need to be able to breathe.
It was painful.
CA: So the jobs that are getting lost, in a way, even though it's going to be painful, humans are capable of more than those jobs.
He liked to sit on her lap because he said that it was painful for him to lie in his own bed.
And the painful part of that moment was the awareness that the emptiness in my apartment was just reflective of the emptiness in myself, and that I had fallen for some of the lies that our culture tells us.
He said that there are people in jail who, like slaves, don't want to think about their condition, because it's too painful.
Too painful to think about the past, too painful to think about how far we have to go.
Remember that he kept reading Frederick Douglass, even though it was painful.
This is one of the most painful reconciliations to make in a creative life.
Well, first of all, it created the impression to us that creativity equals youth, which is painful, right?
But apparently, it's super painful to work under water when you've got an artificial limb, and I'm guessing it was pretty traumatic to go back and work in the field where he got blown up.
And yet, as middle class families struggle to get by on wages that have not budged in about 40 years, neoliberal economists continue to warn that the only reasonable response to the painful dislocations of austerity and globalization is even more austerity and globalization.
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