Best 1738 quotes in «comfort quotes» category

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are.

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place of comfort for the person and a way for our dialogue to be more fluid.

So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life that we take comfort in. Why else would anyone watch Haneke films or read Sebald? The material is grim, but it's redeemed by the quality of the attention.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.