Discomfort Quotes - Page 14

• It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.

  Richard Asher

  Recovery, Surgery, Minors

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

  Seth Rogen

  Laughing, Actors, My Own

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• At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it hurt them to see me in pain; others because I reminded them of their own vulnerability, and that was more than they could handle. But real friends overcame their discomfort and came to sit with me. If they had not words to make me feel better, they sat in silence (much better than saying, "You'll get over it," or "It's not so bad; others have it worse") and I loved them for it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  "Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Success". Book by Harold Kushner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2001.

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• I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

  Lisa Bonet

  Grandmother, Sheep, Racism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Thinking, World

  "May Richard Parker be always at your side". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2002.

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• I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there's the fear of violence, and we're not making that up.

  Ira Sachs

  Gay, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

  Michael Moore

  Art, Purpose, Cases

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• Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Confidence, People, Trying

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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 freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, People, Feelings

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• Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

  Ramana Maharshi

  Worry, Feelings, Done

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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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

  Book, Giving, Feelings

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• I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

  Anita Brookner

  Loneliness, Irritation, Way

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• I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

  Margaret Halsey

  White, Anxiety, Hot

  Margaret Halsey (1960). “This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary”

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• It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

  Jeff Bridges

  Perfection, Feelings, Trying

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• in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.

  Jean Simmons

  Beautiful, Divorce, Style

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• On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.

  Vanna Bonta

  Nausea, Earth, Gravity

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 31), August 1, 2006.

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• Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

  Jean Liedloff

  Happiness, Pain, Disappointment

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

  Wesley Morris

  Teenager, Struggle, Race

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• If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Men, Political

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• Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Change, Entertainment, Positive Experiences

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Past, Self, Bombarded By

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• Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

  Judith Martin

  Law, People, Missing

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Fear, Practice

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 04, 2015

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• There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Pain, Knowledge

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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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 never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

  Martha Beck

  Inspirational, Pain, Kindness

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