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• I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

  Steve Coogan

  Tragedy, Comedy, Limbo

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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 or a little physical discomfort.

  Rachel Weisz

  Hurt, Children, Tree

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• Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

  Carol J. Adams

  Food, People, Feminist

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, I Can

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• Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And I’m the one who’s hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I don’t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. I’m the one who can stop hurting me. It’s within my power.

  Byron Katie

  Hurt, Believe, Mean

  Byron Katie (2008). “I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to find all the love, approval and appreciation you ever wanted”, p.96, Random House

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• Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Masters, Plans

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

  Angelina Jolie

  Somewhere Else, Bigger And Better Things, Dreamer

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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 the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Important, Causes

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

  Jacques Derrida

  Teaching, School, Anxiety

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• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Class, Literature

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• I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

  Andrea Corr

  Tolerance

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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 upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

  Kate Morton

  Dream, Memories, Night

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.706, Simon and Schuster

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• Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

  Loren Eiseley

  Running, Journey, Air

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage

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• In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Guinea, My Own

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• If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Roots, Looks, Behavior

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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 had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Real, Light

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• Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Fighting, Buddhism

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.23, Random House

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• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, People, Management

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

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• Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Giving, Autism

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Think of today as an opportunity to discover and grow beyond your mental and emotional discomfort.

  James Van Praagh

  Opportunity, Emotional, Thinking

  James Van Praagh (2009). “Meditations with James Van Praagh”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as you are feeling discomfort within anything, you're holding yourself in a vibration where all of the things that you have conjured, and all of the things that you have let the Universe know that you want, cannot flow to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Long, Feelings, Want

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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 unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Taken, Eye

  Knut Hamsun (1999). “Hunger”, p.39, Canongate Books

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