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• Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Father, Want, Able

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Letting Go, Done, Way

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

  Chris Abani

  Shadow, Encounters, Ordinary

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

  Leni Zumas

  People, Focus, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

  Brené Brown

  Practice, Trying, Saying No

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.

  Charles Koch

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

  Barbara Brennan

  Criticism, Kind, Guidance

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• Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down safe, comfortable, familiar interpretations, even if they are only partial representations of or fully disconnected from reality.

  Maria Popova

  Creativity, Reality, Locks

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• Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery. And, while we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Mean, Confusion

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• If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

  Dionne Brand

  Air, Hands, Cities

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.122, Vintage Canada

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
  to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
  and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
  pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Emotional, Perspective, Drug

  Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

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• Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Contentment, Literature, Misery

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• Out of discomfort comes greatness.

  Cindy Gallop

  Greatness

  "Cindy Gallop On Bars In Shanghai And Women In Advertising". ADC Interview, adcglobal.org. November 11, 2013.

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• Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

  Robert Orben

  Pain, Medicine, Disease

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Mean, Worry

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

  Michio Kushi

  Hate, Ignorance, Giving

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• Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Despair, Tongue, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.254, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

  Lillian Hellman

  War, Struggle, Ties

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• The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

  John Cleese

  People, Choices, Creative

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• When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Attention

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• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Blood, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

  B. C. Forbes

  Disappointment, Indulge In, Years

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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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