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Quotes About Discomfort

It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.
~ Chaim Potok
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.
~ Charlaine Harris
someone left an anonymous letter under the windshield wiper of my car. Getting an anonymous letter is not a pleasant experience.
~ Charlaine Harris
You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.
~ Joshua Malina
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
~ E. M. Forster
Es curioso advertir con qué eficacia operan las cosas cuando uno las reconoce. Es curioso observar hasta qué punto es incómodo el regalo del mando.
~ Thomas Harris
Hans Castorp barely attended. His mouth was open, for he could not have breathed through his nose without sniffing; he felt with dull discomfort that his heart was hammering out of time with the music; and with this combined sense of discord and disorder he was about to doze off
~ Thomas Mann
S?r?cia, cum bine se spune, nu este o ruÈ™ine, dar asta-i doar o vorb?. Fiindc? ea este cât se poate de însp?imânt?toare pentru cei ce au parte de ea, pe jum?tate cusur È™i pe jum?tate reproÈ™ nehot?rât, aÈ™adar în totul foarte dezagreabil?, È™i a te amesteca cu ea ar putea avea urm?ri nepl?cute.
~ Thomas Mann
There is, in a word, nothing comfortable about the Bible...
~ Thomas Merton
Morning developed out the window. His right canine ached. He unreeled the long hair, beaded with saliva, tooth-tartar, mouth-breather's morning fur, and stared at it. How'd it get here? Eerie, dearie.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Profane si rese conto che stava per vomitare. Le esibizioni di smaccato sentimentalismo gli facevano spesso quel'effetto.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Tory was starting to feel a little foolish standing here with her hands in the air. It was like the whole bar had assembled to watch her nails dry. Why didn't someone say something?
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Most of the time I go around feeling like an old man on roller skates.
~ Kathleen Hale
In many ways, airplane travel mimics the asceticism of the early desert monks: a limited and uncomfortable physical space in which to sit, limited availability of water, food that is less than appetizing, small chance of getting much sleep.
~ Kathleen Norris
I needed him here like I needed a yeast infection.
~ Kathy Reichs
We spoke some, moving our mouths, forming words, saying nothing. Mostly we sat. It wasn't the comfortable silence of old friends accustomed to each other, but a dialogue of uneasiness.
~ Kathy Reichs
Barely spring, yet the unseasonable Florida humidity made me feel like I'd disembarked from my flight into a Rottweiler's mouth.
~ Kathy Reichs
Are you unwell? You aren't going to vomit on me, are you?" "That wasn't on my list of planned activities for the afternoon, no, but if you really insist, I suppose I could try for a hairball or something.
~ Katie MacAlister
It's... It's gross. Knowing there is something inside me that I don't understand. It's gross." - Allen Walker
~ Katsura Hoshino
He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.
~ Kelley Armstrong
turning in my guts like a torsion.
~ C.J. Sansom
If you're not uncomfortable, then you're probably stuck at an "acceptable level.
~ Cal newport
This is what you should experience in your own pursuit of "good." If you're not uncomfortable, then you're probably stuck at an "acceptable level.
~ Cal newport
Strain, I now accepted, was good. Instead of seeing this discomfort as a sensation to avoid, I began to understand it the same way that a body builder understands muscle burn: a sign that you're doing something right. Inspired by this insight, I accompanied a promise to do more large-scale paper deconstructions of this type with a trio of smaller habits designed to inject even more deliberate practice into my daily routine. I describe these new routines below: My
~ Cal newport