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“On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.”

Littles Said Pain Film Actors Father Hurt Acting Scene Ambition Doctors Upset Bees Cried

Author:Natasha Richardson

“I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.”

Thinking Moments Pain Life Is Ambition Foolish Passing Passings Celebration Passing Moments

Book:Just One Night, Part 2: Exposed

Source: Just One Night, Part 2: Exposed

“If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.”

Ifs Pain Suffering Goodness Ambition Deny

Author:M. Scott Peck

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

Men Pain Political Politics Office Ambition Painful Thankless

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

Source: This Side of Paradise

“In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.”

Mind Whole Pain Form Used Hate Order Pleasure Brain Records Bears Essentials Ambition Conscious Evidence Bases Aim Organs Love And Hate Pain And Pleasure

Book:Philosophy and the brain

Source: Philosophy and the brain

“My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.”

“I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.”

World Way Inspirational Kids Wanted School Pain Suffering Order Challenges Blessing Ambition Exception Right Way Scholarship

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh