111 Quotes About Discomfort

It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conservative shell, unless he feels discomfort there.

It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conversative shell, unless he doesn't feel discomfort there.

It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this.

Painful indeed is the panegyric of those we contemn.

Hear folks talkin' about how some of us got the weight of the world on our shoulders? Fuck, maybe we do, but I'll hold onto it. At least it's somethin', you know?

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.

The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive.

The world needs us to be fierce enough to see challenges as gifts, to express our unique selves, and to expand the limits of what is possible. The only thing getting in the way is that we get stuck trying to find our way out of pain and discomfort. There is no way to avoid uncertainty. There is no guarantee of safety.

The trip ahead would put us in uncomfortable situations for which there would be little prior experience to inform our decisions; it would demand we shift our perspectives and check our timelines at the door; it would push us to reach out to strangers across barriers of language and insecurity; it would require us to acknowledge our smallness in the world. These are hallmarks of a great, life-affirming trip, and we hadn’t even left the country yet.