Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort."
Discomfort quotes
Discomfort
29 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"Discomfort is the call to set yourself free."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?"
David Foster Wallace
Writer
"She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks."
Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"Lean into the discomfort of the work."
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"It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer."
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"In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort."
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"I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from."
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"A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much."
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