Discomfort Quotes

It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

Let your discomfort and pain push you into something new.

Discomfort awakens the consciousness.

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

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?

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the soul

A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.

Life demands discomfort and pain.

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.

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

Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them.

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

In reality, the world is not an arena of comfort but comfort that works! Comfort that makes impact! Yes, comfort that changes lives and leaves a distinctive footprint! Truly, comfort that does not work is only discomfort at work in silence. So many people shall dwell in comfort without working with it only to meet discomfort one day and remember comfort!

The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential human beings’ before making it unto the earth. Our spectators watching our race of life are the Seen and the Unseen. Thought, attitude and choice are what bring the differences in the arena of mother earth. The real champions in this life are they that will run the race of life facing the storms, overcoming the hurdles, unraveling the puzzles of life, questioning the status quo in wit, over ruling environmental mediocrity and daring for great and indelible change out of comfort or discomfort.

Don’t be too comfortable with employment discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself

But I comforted myself with the thought that the reward for every discomfort I suffered for God was a spiritual blessing.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!

If only education will aim at teaching learners’ real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books!

Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.

She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ("Fish for silence.")

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

When you keep hitting walls of resistance in life, the universe is trying to tell you that you are going the wrong way. It's like driving a bumper car at an amusement park. Each time you slam into another car or the edge of the track, you are forced to change direction.

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

When it comes to purpose and preparation, most of us want to skip the preparation part and get right to purpose, which is why we don't always get to truly enjoy and walk in our purpose. Don't despise the discomfort in preparation. It's the set-up for a firm foundation. Preparation ultimately ensures that we don't squander purpose.

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

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

No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don't even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

Life demands something else, discomfort and pain.

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort.

The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort.

All things seek for comfort and no one wants discomfort. A sound mind does not just improve speed; it increases efficiency and joy, and bond the body and the soul perfectly as well!

Comfort without action is only discomfort and dissatisfaction in latent action. It always seems we shall have a good tomorrow until a bad tomorrow comes