Quotes About Discomfort

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.

Lately he, too, had had moods where the sound of other people's cheerfulness grated . . .

Sometimes she found casual physical contact with men almost unbearable

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

The usual strategy for coping with the discomfort of knowing that others are superior in some way is to try to reduce the inequalities by bringing the more fortunate down or by preventing him from being more fortunate. This is the strategy of envy.

If you hire people who prompt discomfort in yourself and others, take extra care to listen to their ideas and insist that others do so as well.

I had expected a certain amount of exitment from the staff when they found out I wasn't totaly helpless. Instead, they looked unfomfortable. They exchanged glances, then looked at the sky, then at the ground. "umm.... does this mean we're going on? Guido said at last.

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

The discomfort in the room was growing.

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

You will always feel a little discomfort when you are installing a new habit.

You will always feel a little discomfort when you are installing a new habit. It's sort of like breaking in a new pair of shoes—at first it's a little hard to wear them but soon they fit like a glove. The best amongst us get comfortable being uncomfortable.

the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.

I couldn't even eat a hot dog without getting sick.

The single best way to build your willpower is to voluntarily put yourself into conditions of discomfort.

The more time you spend outside of your comfort zone, the wider it grows

dejad que os diga que el lugar donde reside el mayor de vuestros desasosiegos es a la vez el rincón donde se encuentra vuestra mayor oportunidad.

Please see this as a small measure of short-term pain for a large measure of long-term gain. You will always feel a little discomfort when you are installing a new habit. Pain is often the precursor to personal growth. Don't dread it. Instead, embrace it.

let me simply say that the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.

Anyway, let me simply say that the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.

People never pay attention to weather reports; this, I believe, is a constant factor in man's psychological makeup, stemming probably from an ancient distrust of the shaman. You want them to be wrong. If they're right, then they're somehow superior, and this is even more uncomfortable than getting wet. This Moment of the Storm

I am not normally claustrophobic and my life was not in imminent peril, but something about this shining prison annoyed me out of all proportion to the situation itself.

I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life