Best Discomfort Thoughts
244 Discomfort quotes by 215 unique authors
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All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.
— Bryant H. McGill
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Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
— Peter McWilliams
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The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already…
— Michael Moore
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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way…
— Joaquin Phoenix
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After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
— Seth Rogen
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
— Zadie Smith
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God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just…
— Charles Stanley
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The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
— Gloria Steinem
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As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself…
— Rachel Weisz
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If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about…
— Julian Baggini
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Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to…
— John F. Kennedy
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out…
— William Morris
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Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's…
— Thomas Hardy
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only…
— M. Scott Peck
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I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be…
— Knut Hamsun
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Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.
— Pearl Cleage
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I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom…
— Anne Lamott
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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a…
— E L Konigsburg
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Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we…
— Martha Beck
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Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding…
— Loren Eiseley
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I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that…
— David James Duncan
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