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• Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

  Byron Katie

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2014

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• I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Numbers, Intellectual, Atheism

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• People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

  Barbara Deming

  Change, Running, Long

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

  Henry Blackaby

  Want, Facts, Difficulty

  Henry Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (1998). “Experiencing God Day by Day”, B&H Publishing Group

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• The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.

  Thomas Merton

  Hate, Men, Sweat

  Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (2007). “Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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• I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, School, Journey

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Space

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• Excellence requires discomfort.

  T. D. Jakes

  Excellence

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• Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

  Magda Gerber

  Sadness, Frustration, Want

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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• Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

  Susan Maushart

  Motivation, Needs

  Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.51, Penguin

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• All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30 carefully monitored heroin addicts, 30 successfully withdrew from their addiction with no more than minor discomfort. None of the 30 were reported to have relapsed...Similar results have been reported by other doctors...:Archie Kalokerinos.

  Irwin Stone

  Loss, Dark, Doctors

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• Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.

  Russell Peters

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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• But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

  Max Cannon

  Causes, Action, Should

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• For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.

  Giles Duley

  Photography, Pain, Responsibility

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• When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Urban Renewal, Doctors

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• Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

  Yehuda Berg

  Pain, Uncomfortable Situations, Long

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• Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort associated with trying to put all those different ways the brain works together. I kind of like to avail myself of that discomfort.

  Jessica Stockholder

  Writing, Hands, Brain

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• A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Kindness, Men, Opinion

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• Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

  Debbie Ford

  Fear, Moving, Past

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• People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

  Kristen Stewart

  Sunshine, Hard Times, People

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• What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the opposite of funny. To amuse someone is to eliminate discomfort and awkwardness, kind of like a massage for the brain, while to be funny is to point out awkwardness and discomfort. Everyone thinks they want funny, but they really want amusement.

  Christian Finnegan

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  Fanny Kemble

  Worst, Servant, Wretched

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.101, University of Georgia Press

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• Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Rain, Moving

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer to ignore, such as whether their conduct is ethical. This can trigger discomfort, and some people may simply close their minds to it. It does not follow that we ought to stop talking about these things.

  Richard Stallman

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ethical Issues

  "Why 'Free Software' Is Better Than 'Open Source'". www.gnu.org. 1998.

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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