Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom when it comes not merely philosophically but almost with pleasure.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times it feels more painful than the wound we suffered to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.

I'm involved in the stock market which is fun and sometimes very painful.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful' we will say 'If government spending prevents pain why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain just stay on the track we are on.'

But my experience is that people who have been through painful difficult times are filled with compassion.

Mistakes are painful when they happen but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.