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“Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.”

Kind Age Language Strong Sweet Reader Exciting Painful Available Contemporary Dramatic Persuasive

Author:Walter Wangerin

“Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.”

Thinking Needs Pain Suffering Sweet Communication Painful Interpretation Fulfilled Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.”

Trying Said Feelings Artist Left Knowing Color Sweet Taste Longing Painful Frustration Capture Fragile Gestures

Author:Alan Alda

“Memory is sweet. Even when it’s painful, memory is sweet.”

Memories Sweet Painful Painful Memories

Book:Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

Source: Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

“To some an extremely sharp picture may be positively painful, for it will perhaps disturb and break the train of thought, whereas a less-defined one would allow the mind to wander at its own sweet will.”

Mind May Break Sweet Train Painful Wander Defined Positively Train Of Thought

Author:Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

“Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.”

Needs Stills Helping Pain Moving Understanding Memories Sweet Painful Welcome Cherish Bitterness New Beginnings Basics Reservoirs Happy Memories

Author:Rosamunde Pilcher

“Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.”

People Ifs Way Problem Together Difficult Practice Destiny Laughing Sweet Solutions Painful Breathing Coming Together

Author:Anne Lamott