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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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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Byron Katie

Twitter post from Mar 25, 2014

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Excellence requires discomfort.

T. D. Jakes

Excellence

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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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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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You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.

Chris Kilham

Medicine, Needs, Chemistry

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

Greg Bear

Vacation, Sight, Love Coming Back

"Why I love Mars" by Greg Bear, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2012.

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