Discomfort Quotes · Page 5

“Sometimes, discomfort means we are on the verge of a major turning point or revelation.”

— Laurie E. Smith

If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.

— Eric Thomas

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

— Mason Cooley

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

— Rumi

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Healing is an uncomfortable and lonesome process. It’s why we pick our scabs, it’s why we drunk text our exes.”

— Donte Collins

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

— Francine Rivers

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

— Carl Sagan

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

— Mark Fisher

I have long since passed that period when I felt personal discomfort at the sight of an ill-dressed or illiterate Negro. Social…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.

— Hal Elrod

“‪Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn…

— Karen Bergreen

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort…

— William R. Brody

Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in…

— Laurel Nakadate

“If you have a sense of discomfort about your life, that is a gift. Your discomfort is a signal that something needs…

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

“I was overwhelmed by an undefinable sensation, too serene to be called anxiety, but unpleasant enough not to go unnoticed.”

— Guadalupe Nettel

Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Presence is the practice of fully inhabiting where you are, with openness and attention, rather than rushing past toward what comes next.…

— Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World

Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element…

— Dalai Lama

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered…

— Anne Lamott

Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in…

— Russell Peters

“When you suffer,” Rostam went on, “you can choose to endure, or you can choose to overcome.” He gestured around them, to…

— Tahereh Mafi

“this world’s a goddamn twilight zone — people wired wrong, hearts half-asleep. so i try to move through it with a little…

— Jonathan Harnisch

... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

— Pema Chodron

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

— Robert Orben

I'm always nudging myself into discomfort zones as much as I can.

— Robert Sheehan

Whenever you're feeling moments of discomfort, that means true change is happening for you.

— John David Washington

“his discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind.”

— Kim Edwards

I pride myself in in creating discomfort for myself and others.

— Mike Tomlin

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

— Pema Chodron

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

— Vivek Shraya

“Be comfortable within your purse,” he often said. “Extravagance will buy you discomfort.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.

— Craig Brown

“If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort.”

— Paulo Coelho

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

— Seth Rogen

Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you're believing an untrue thought

— Byron Katie

“The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.”

— Darren Main

“Moving into the discomfort is often the best way to understand and make peace with it.”

— B.B. Aspen

Cultivating a relationship with discomfort will help you discern the difference between good pain and bad.

— Laird Hamilton