“I need you to find the comfort in the discomfort.”— Seth Meyers, Izabella Barta, Cate Blanchett, imdb.com
“Every time we go this far out of Atlanta I remember the nervousness I felt on Election Night 2016. Like this level of discomfort. Like, where are we going?”— Jonathan Van Ness, imdb.com
“We must enter conversations in pursuit of progress, not to prove a point.”— Charli Cooksey, teenvogue.com
“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.com
“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”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“Obsessive thoughts are often a response to confusing discomfort for danger. This is the premise of all anxiety, but particularly with OCD.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Most people don't change until not changing is the less comfortable option.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“We hear our instincts, we just don't listen. This is the single most common root of discomfort: the space between knowing and doing.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The most transformative and resilient leaders that I’ve worked with over the course of my career have three things in common: First, they recognize the central role that relationships and story play in culture and strategy, and they stay curious about their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Sec…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I drank for thirteen years for REALLY good reasons. Among them were unprocessed grief, parental abandonment, isolation, violent trauma, anxiety and panic, social oppression, a general lack of safety, deep existential discord, and a tremendous diet and lifestyle imbalance. None of which constitute a…”— Noah Levine, amazon.com
“You’ve got to embrace discomfort. It’s the only way you can put yourself in situations where you can learn, and the only way you can keep your senses fresh once you’re there.”— Louis CK, gq.com
“Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never…”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali,