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• Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Organization, Engagement

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

  Edith Schaeffer

  Creativity, Exercise, Sacrifice

  "What Is a Family?". Book by Edith Schaeffer, www.nytimes.com. 1975.

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• Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sacrifice, Mind, Ordinary

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle of Your Mind”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra. You will never go short, never will you have less. God will prevail by God's True Nature. If you have discomfort and hunger say, "God, that is Thy Virtue. Thank you for accepting me for that tragedy." This is the attitude of gratitude. "My shackles will be removed by Thy Will." God is so great, to Him the whole of what we have is just like a sesame seed.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Writing

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• One of the hardest things to live with in any relationship is criticism, real or implied. Criticism is a form of humor for them, and they enjoy feeling superior when they see someone else's discomfort.

  Robert E. Wells

  Real, Feelings, Criticism

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• The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Pain, Health, Science

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• I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.

  Bob Hope

  Veterans Day, Brother, Husband

  Bob Hope (1944). “I never left home”

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• A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Moving, Home

  Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

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• The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself so I am at the edge of discomfort...Later, it will be time for consideration and reconsideration, slow, careful revision and editing. But on the first draft I have to achieve velocity, just as you do if you want the bike to balance.

  Donald Murray

  Believe, Writing, Editing

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• We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

  David Mamet

  Government, Liberty, Principles

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Country, People, Voting

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• Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

  Pema Chodron

  Freedom, Pain, Practice

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• Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

  Edward Adam Strecker

  Determination, Jobs, Struggle

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• I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Writing, Thinking

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• The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

  J.P. Moreland

  Real, Feelings, Action

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• If we can learn to deal with our discomfort and just relax into it we'll have a better life.

  Mellody Hobson

  Relax, Better Life, Deals

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• We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Strong, Pain, Animal

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• I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

  Timothy Olyphant

  People, Ability, Uncomfortable

  "Timothy Olyphant: 'Justified' In Laying Down The Law". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 28, 2011.

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• When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

  Kerry Washington

  Writing, People, Choices

  "Best Quotes from Kerry Washington's and Stephen Colbert's Graduation Speeches" by Vi-An Nguyen, parade.com. May 20, 2013.

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• As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.

  Ronald Goldman

  Religious, Stress, Caring

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• A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Crowns, Ifs, Adornment

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

  Marquis de Sade

  Marriage, Degradation, Horror

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

  Jose Limon

  Dance, Art, Sweat

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• I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Suffering, Thank God

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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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