He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
It became clear over time that white people have extremely low thresholds for enduring any discomfort associated with challenges to our racial… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The uncomfort zone is very important for us... To feel uncomfortable is important to strengthen your spirit. Like the samurai says, if… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
If you watch football players stretch before a game, you see a kind of agony on their faces that you don't see… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should… — David Deida Copy Share Image
The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make… — Eugene Gendlin Copy Share Image
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In every work out there comes a moment where you have to decide to keep pushing hard - through the doubt, discomfort… — Lisa Rainsberger Copy Share Image
Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool,… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Do…you…have…a…hard…time…finding…Steve’s dick?” she enunciated, enjoying Mary’s extreme discomfort. “He’s big as a fuckin’ house so I imagine it might be a bit… — A.T. Hicks Copy Share Image
Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
I've been acting since I was a little kid. It was my escape from my day which had to do with a… — Daphne Zuniga Copy Share Image
To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I think that even at my most anxious, if I have a job to do or a role to fill, I know… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
