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• EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Nuts, Affair

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.60, 谷月社

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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 happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

  William Styron

  Hands, Honor, Suffering

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• Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Survival, Shelter

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• I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Suffering, Thank God

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• At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

  Esther Perel

  Teenager, Passion, Home

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• Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.

  Adam Schiff

  Past, Turkeys, Ottomans

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• An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.

  Tim Cahill

  Time, Adventure, Emotional

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• A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

  Marty Neumeier

  Ideas, Genius, Tolerate

  Marty Neumeier (2014). “The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity”, p.31, New Riders

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• It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Strong, Powerful, Mind

  "Ironman champ: Your mind matters more" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2012.

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• The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun will burn you by day and the cold will shrivel you by night. You'll be racked by fever and tormented by a hundred discomforts, but you'll go on. For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine... it's a sort of madness.

  Susan Orlean

  Falling In Love, Night, Men

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• In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Order, Justice, May

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• The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

  Evan Esar

  Vacation, Like Love, Nostalgia

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• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Trying, Chasing

  "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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• If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

  Jose Limon

  Dance, Art, Sweat

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• The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

  Marquis de Sade

  Marriage, Degradation, Horror

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Strong, Pain, Animal

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• When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

  Kerry Washington

  Writing, People, Choices

  "Best Quotes from Kerry Washington's and Stephen Colbert's Graduation Speeches" by Vi-An Nguyen, parade.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

  Timothy Olyphant

  People, Ability, Uncomfortable

  "Timothy Olyphant: 'Justified' In Laying Down The Law". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 28, 2011.

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• A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Crowns, Ifs, Adornment

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• If we can learn to deal with our discomfort and just relax into it we'll have a better life.

  Mellody Hobson

  Relax, Better Life, Deals

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• Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Writing, Clouds, Practice

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• The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

  J.P. Moreland

  Real, Feelings, Action

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• I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Writing, Thinking

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