Best Discomfort Wisdom
244 Discomfort quotes by 215 unique authors
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I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe…
— William Styron
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My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and…
— Melina Marchetta
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The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd…
— John Steinbeck
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To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
— Graham Greene
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An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.
— Tim Cahill
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Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.
— C.D. Payne
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Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
— Francine Rivers
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Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When…
— Seth Godin
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There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family.…
— Edith Schaeffer
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My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
— Carl Sagan
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered…
— Kate Morton
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Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the…
— Harper Lee
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If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and…
— Paulo Coelho
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing…
— Veronica Roth
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have…
— Donald Miller
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You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
— Lionel Shriver
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There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it…
— Joyce Meyer
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Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym…
— Lionel Shriver
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I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're…
— Kevin Hearne
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She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
— David Foster Wallace
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It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to…
— Mark Haddon
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Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
— Brandon Sanderson
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