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• Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Men, Thinking, Attention

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Diversity, Tolerance

  "Calming our fears" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2007.

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• The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Firsts, Clean, Ownership

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• I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Numbers, People, Risk

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Confusion, Together, Groups

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• Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Pain, Book, Self

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• Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Fascination, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have learned that the fear and discomfort around there not being enough money is internal.

  Rachel Platten

  Enough, I Have Learned, Internals

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Men, Female

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• Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

  Peter Ustinov

  Law, Soldier, World

  "The Loser: A Novel". Book by Peter Ustinov, 1960.

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• Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Night, Ninety Nine

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• Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Successful, Investing, Absence

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are

  Kweisi Mfume

  People, Justice, Comfort

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• It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

  Saint Augustine

  Animal, Convenience, Creatures

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.508, Catholic Way Publishing

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

  Byron Katie

  Stress, Believe, Alarms

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• How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.

  Vivian Gornick

  Moving, Roots, People

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• There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Two

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• Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

  Devendra Banhart

  Trying, Comfort, Has Beens

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• The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Soul, Risk

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• All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

  Moliere

  Mirrors, Faults, Satire

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• ...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, Anxiety

  "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.

  Stephen Levine

  Letting Go, Mind, Balance

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• in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

  Dorothea Dix

  Compassion, Want, Cold

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• I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

  Myrtle Reed

  Moving, Stills, Moved

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

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

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Guarantees

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 15, 2014

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