There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
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