Comfort Quotes:

Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

- A.A. Attanasio

topic: Believe, Evil, Comfort

I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

- Aaron Baddeley

topic: Comfort, Elements, Firsts, Tees

When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

- Aaron Baddeley

topic: Comfort, Consistent, Make Sense

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hard Work, Comfort, Source

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Emergencies, Comfort, Ears, Words Of Comfort

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Father, Comfort, Ears, Words Of Comfort

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

- Adam Braun

source: Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

topic: Discovery, Self, Comfort

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

- Adolf Loos

topic: Art, House, Comfort

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

- Adoniram Judson

source: ADONIRAM JUDSON (1854). “RECORDS OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENTS”, p.96

topic: Rivers, Joy, Comfort

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Hurt, Errors, Comfort

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Travel, Light, Comfort

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

- Aimee Bender

source: Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House

topic: Light, Yellow, Comfort

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.

- Al Yankovic

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Trying, Depth, Comfort

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

- Alain Robert

source: "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

topic: People, Comfort, Want, Life On The Edge

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Moving, Comfort, Events

During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.

- Alan Sugar

topic: Business, People, Comfort

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

- Alan Watts

topic: Mind Blowing, Curiosity, Comfort, Fear Of The Unknown, Childlike

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

- Albert Camus

topic: Judging, Guilt, Comfort

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Goal, Joy, Comfort

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Truth, Men, Comfort, Search For Truth

A promise kept is trust coming to life. A promise kept is more powerful than a good intention, a thought or any material comfort. A promise kept tells the other person they are valued, respected and loved.

- Alex Blackwell

topic: Powerful, Promise, Comfort

The more comfort, the less courage there is.

- Alexander Suvorov

topic: War, Comfort

You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.

- Alexander Whyte

topic: Rivers, Long, Comfort

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Enemy, Comfort, Syphilis

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Air, Individuality, Comfort

The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.

- Alfonso Soriano

topic: Team, Trying, Comfort, Left Field

I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

- Alice Adams

source: Alice Adams (2011). “TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Stories”, p.146, Vintage

topic: Grief, Sorrow, Comfort, Deep Sorrow

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Heaven, Growth, Comfort

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

- Alicia Vikander

topic: Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

source: Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

topic: Dying, Comfort, Lessons

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

- Allan Jacobs

topic: Community, Comfort, Urban

We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Sick, Waiting, Comfort, Small Gifts

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

- Amelia Barr

topic: Gratitude, Comfort, Events

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

- Amelia Bloomer

topic: Comfort, Want, Costumes, Wants And Needs, Adornment

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

- Amy Bloom

source: Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.186, Random House

topic: Distance, Past, Comfort

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

- Amy Lee

source: Twitter post from Apr 14, 2010

topic: Comfort, Admitting, Chaos

I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

- Amy Lowell

topic: Soul, Balance, Comfort, Versus

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Giving, Comfort, Obedience, Irresponsibility

He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over. But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Sorry, Brain, Comfort, I'm So Sorry

You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Long, Comfort, World

At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Over You, Feelings, Comfort

I'm not one of those stars that goes out and literally dresses to be photographed. I'm kind of a 'what you see is what you get' type of girl when I dress. I go for comfort above everything else.

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Girl, Stars, Comfort, Type Of Girl

People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.

- Anne Hollander

source: Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.444, Univ of California Press

topic: Pain, People, Comfort

We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]

- Anne Lamott

topic: Cancer, Silence, Comfort, Inside And Outside, Not Okay

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Book, Comfort, World

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

- Anne Tyler

topic: Memorial, Comfort, Memorial Service

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

- Annette Funicello

source: Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks

topic: Country, Comfort, Funny Travel, Comfort And Hope

I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable.

- Anquan Boldin

topic: Football, Practice, Comfort

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

- Anthony Douglas

topic: Mother, Soul, Comfort

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

- Antoine Lavoisier

topic: Effort, Rewards, Comfort, Countryside

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

- Arthur Gray

source: Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.1, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Tea, Beverages, Comfort, Cups Of Tea

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

- Arthur Nersesian

source: Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

topic: Memorable, Comfort, Duration, Trade Offs

Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

- Arvo Part

topic: Silence, Comfort, Moments, Moment Of Silence

Comfort is key for a barbecue.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: Keys, Comfort, Barbecue

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

- Atul Gawande

source: Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.13, Profile Books

topic: People, Dying, Comfort, Reluctance

In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

- Auguste Rodin

topic: Sight, Portraits, Comfort, Human Form

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Smoking, Comfort, World

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Commitment, Comfort, Sticks, Being Disappointed

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Technology, Comfort, Damage

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

- Banana Yoshimoto

source: Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.8, Melville House

topic: Comfort

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

- Banksy

source: "Banksy Sells Works to Unsuspecting Tourists for Total of 420 Bucks, Shakes Very Foundation of Art" by Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 14, 2013.

topic: Art, Comfort, Should

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Sea, Comfort, Would Be, Creature Comforts, Sea Voyage

It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

- Ben Robertson

topic: Home, People, Comfort, Rambling

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Fun, Challenges, Comfort

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Discovery, Progress, Comfort

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Comfort, Complaining, Pay, Grumbling

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

topic: Business, Comfort, Should

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

- Bert Murray

topic: Character, Voice, Comfort, Honor And Integrity, Small Voice

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Men, Comfort, West

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

- Beth Moore

source: "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

topic: Christian, Challenges, Comfort

If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

- Beth Moore

topic: Adventure, Missing, Comfort, Compelled, Greatest Adventure

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Comfort, Great Father, Dad Love

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

- Bill Courtney

topic: Profound, Comfort, Comfort Zone

Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.

- Bill Courtney

topic: Comfort, Comfort Zone, Problem

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

- Bill Gates

topic: Growth, Comfort, Agree

What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Talking, Long, Comfort

The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.

- Billy Graham

topic: Angel, Knowing, Comfort

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Comfort, Littles, Little Things

When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

- Bob Benson

topic: Jesus, Answers, Comfort, Confidence In God, Intimacy With God

I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.

- Bob Parsons

topic: Believe, Comfort, Significance

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

- Brad Henry

topic: Family, Inspiration, Comfort, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

- Brad Paisley

topic: Southern, Comfort, World

Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives.

- Brenda Peterson

source: Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Animal, Compassion, Comfort, Unwavering

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE

- Brendon Burchard

topic: Adventure, Safety, Comfort

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

- Brené Brown

topic: Comfort

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

- Brett Ratner

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Trying, Comfort, Elements, Short Films

They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

- Brian Grazer

topic: Believe, Comfort, Purpose

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

- Brian Grazer

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Decision, Comfort, Different

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

- Brian Tracy

source: "Dan Stevens: my week on the porch". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 06, 2013.

topic: Enemy, Comfort, Comfort Zone

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

- Brian Tracy

topic: Risk, Comfort

Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Trying, Comfort, Each Day

Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.

- Bridget Hall

topic: Dream, Style, Comfort, Comfort Food

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Able, Comfort, Literature

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

- Budd Schulberg

source: "Barry Mcguigan: Brilliant Schulberg Budd was more than a contender", www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2009.

topic: Comfort, Fighter, Dignity, Racehorses

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

- Buzz Aldrin

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Responsibility, Choices, Comfort, Accepting Responsibility, Health And Education

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.

- Byron Katie

topic: People, Mind, Comfort

How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine. Rather one must seek to convince him that the Savior is there for him, has already forgiven him, and has already accepted him. As soon as one makes faith even in the least a requirement for justification, one takes from such a person all the comfort of the Gospel.

- C. F. W. Walther

topic: Doubt, Despair, Comfort

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Doors, Heaven, Comfort

I'd punch that ***** in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

- Calamity Jane

topic: Comfort, Balls, Cups

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

- Carlisle Floyd

topic: Sound, Comfort, Answers, American Music

Are we prepared to leave our comfort zones to reach a better place?

- Carlos A. Godoy

topic: Comfort, Comfort Zone, Prepared

The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.

- Catherine Cookson

topic: Money, Comfort, Want

We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.

- Catherine McAuley

topic: Heart, Comfort, Littles, Tripping

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

- Celia Thaxter

source: Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

topic: Soul, Sunrise, Comfort, Sad Soul

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

- Celine Dion

topic: Comfort, Why Not, Environment

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Comfort, Done, Injustice

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Fall, Mind, Comfort

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Sympathy, Eye, Comfort, Deserted

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

- Charles Dickens

topic: Feelings, Words Of Wisdom, Comfort, Unforgiving, Angry Feelings

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Age, Comfort, World

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Comfort, Hell, Sinking, God Help Me, Saviour

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Self, Comfort, Sin

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Heart, Comfort, Rooms

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!

- Charles Stross

topic: Color, Safety, Comfort, Berkeley

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

- Charlize Theron

source: FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 31, 2012

topic: Thinking, Interesting, Comfort

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

topic: Happiness, Feelings, Comfort

We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more.

- Charlotte Mason

topic: Children, Comfort, Prosperity

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

- Cherie Lunghi

topic: Age, Comfort, Ease

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

- Chinmayananda Saraswati

source: "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

topic: Tragedy, Comfort, Midst

I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

- Chris Matthews

topic: Trying, Comfort, Riding, Weird Stuff

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

- Chris Murray

topic: Boys, Desire, Comfort

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

- Christopher Love

topic: Comfort, Degrees, Looks

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Comfort, Companionship, Miserable

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Soul, Comfort, Kingdoms, Mephistopheles, Faustus

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

- Christy Turlington

topic: Marijuana, Smoking, Comfort, Pressured

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Comfort, Humans

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

- Cleopatra

source: "Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence". Book by Valerie Gager, Valerie L. Gager, Cambridge University Press, p. 266, 1996.

topic: Comfort, Events, Welcome, Terrible Events

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

- Clive Bell

topic: Class, Comfort, Middle, Middle Class

I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.

- Colin Montgomerie

topic: Comfort, Events, Holes

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

- Compton Mackenzie

topic: Cat, Comfort, Devotion

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

- Connie Sellecca

source: "John Tesh and Family Comfort Sri Lankan Victims". "The 700 Club" with Gordon Robertson, www.cbn.com.

topic: Trying, Comfort, Faces

It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.

- Connie Sellecca

topic: Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Punishment, Might, Comfort

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

- Cornelia Funke

topic: Book, Happiness And Love, Comfort

You have to [go outside your comfort zone]. Andy Warhol said 'say yes to everything'.

- Cynthia Rowley

topic: Comfort, Warhol, Said

Comfort and solace come about differently for different people.

- D. T. Max

source: Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

topic: People, Comfort, Different, Different Peoples

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

- Dalai Lama

topic: Happiness, Two, Comfort, Mental Peace

I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

- Daniel Pinchbeck

topic: Comfort, Culture, Void

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Comfort, Levels, Film, Film Set

In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.

- Dave Eggers

topic: Doors, Comfort, Competence

Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

- David Brainerd

topic: Christian, Comfort, Savages, Missionary Service

I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

- David Caruso

source: "AGENT ORANGE: David Caruso on SESSION 9". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 23, 2001.

topic: Player, Guy, Comfort, Magazine Covers

Our comfort zones can be our greatest enemy to our potential.

- David Cottrell

topic: Enemy, Comfort, Comfort Zone

Most of us entered journalism and joined news organizations because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

- David Shuster

source: "The 'Live TV' Suicide: Forgive Shep Smith, But Boycott Buzzfeed" by David Shuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2012.

topic: Organization, Comfort, News

When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.

- David Walliams

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Light, Chocolate, Comfort, Fattening, Comfort Food

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

- Dean Karnazes

topic: Confused, Comfort, Lines

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

- Dean Karnazes

source: Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.189, Rodale

topic: Achievement, Soul, Comfort

Don't confuse comfort with happiness.

- Dean Karnazes

topic: Powerful, Comfort

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

- Deborah Norville

topic: Trying, Comfort, Answers

If you don't ever get out of your comfort zone you will never make it to the end zone!.

- Deborah Roberts

topic: Comfort, Comfort Zone, Ends

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

- DeForest Kelley

topic: Feelings, Comfort, Welfare, Deep Feeling

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

- Dejan Stojanovic

source: "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Game," Chapter: "Cheat," p. 88), 1999.

topic: Comfort, Deceit, May

Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

- Dennis Rainey

topic: Men, Comfort, Television, Learn To Fly, Creature Comforts

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

- Derek Jacobi

topic: People, Safety, Comfort, Slough

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

- Devendra Banhart

topic: Trying, Comfort, Discomfort

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

- Diana Ross

topic: Clothes, Safety, Comfort, Pretty Things

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

- Dick Francis

source: Dick Francis (2010). “The Danger”, p.72, Penguin

topic: Hurt, Feelings, Comfort

There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Pain, Sound, Comfort

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Comfort, Trouble

God's strength makes us strong; His comfort comforts us. With Him, we no longer run; we rest.

- Dillon Burroughs

topic: Running, Strong, Comfort

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

topic: Mean, House, Comfort

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

- Dodie Smith

topic: Tea, Comfort, Needed

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

- Donna Tartt

source: Donna Tartt (2002). “The Little Friend”, Vintage

topic: Lonely, Comfort, Gone

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

- Dora Russell

source: Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”

topic: Comfort

Your angels are giving you strength and comfort right now.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Angel, Giving, Comfort, Strength And Comfort

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Sight, People, Comfort

You may concentrate on appearances all through the rest of your house, but in the bedroom comfort should be supreme. I think that bedrooms should also be very intimate rooms-they should express your personal preferences in every way...Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours.

- Dorothy Draper

topic: Thinking, House, Comfort, Personal Preferences

No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.

- Dorothy Draper

topic: Real, Perfect, Comfort

The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.

- Doug Flutie

topic: Comfort, Chance, Ready

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

- Dwight L. Moody

topic: Giving, Liberty, Comfort, Impart

There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.

- Dylan Lauren

topic: Comfort, Comfort Food, Affordable

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Comfort, Firsts, Contemptuous

From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Sacrifice, Views, Comfort, Automation, Small Is Beautiful

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

- Eamon Duffy

topic: Knowing, History, Comfort

The blessings of having the Holy Ghost in your life are enormous. It will lead, guide, enlighten, show, bless, teach, comfort, testify, witness to, and literally purify you. In your life as a missionary, you cannot succeed in any phase of work without the Holy Ghost. You cannot teach or be directed in the work.

- Ed Pinegar

topic: Blessing, Comfort, Missionary

The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.

- Eddie Harris

topic: Comfort, Steps, Realizing

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

- Eden Sher

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Long, Volunteer, Comfort, If I Stay

Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.

- Edith Sitwell

topic: Home, Winter, Comfort

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

- Edward Albee

source: Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Responsibility, Comfort, Aids

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

- Edward Felten

topic: Worry, Comfort, Levels, Inference

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Comfort, Anticipation, Imperfect

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Opportunity, Years, Comfort

With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.

- Edward Jesse

source: Edward Jesse (1860). “Lectures on Natural History: Delivered at the "Fishermen's Home," Brighton”, p.47

topic: Dog, Men, Comfort, Dog Training, Great Dog

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

- Elijah

topic: Feel Better, Comfort, Want

I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than not with the material of smaller films,.

- Elijah Wood

topic: Comfort, Film, Feels

I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

- Elizabeth Banks

topic: Together, Comfort, Accessories, Pulling Together, Personal Relationships

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Simple, Comfort, Earth, Desolate

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;

- Elizabeth Goudge

topic: People, Humanity, Comfort, Adornment

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

- Elizabeth Janeway

source: Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's World Woman's Place”

topic: Marriage, Comfort, Satisfaction

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Eye, Comfort, Chance

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

- Elliott Smith

topic: Leaving, Enemy, Comfort

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

- Elsie de Wolfe

topic: House, Comfort, Synthesis, Practicality

Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room ...

- Elsie de Wolfe

source: Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

topic: Light, Air, Comfort

I like the cuts - they comfort me - I can't lie.

- Emma Forrest

topic: Lying, Cutting, Comfort

Concentrate on comfort - even if that means wearing the same thing over and over, because when I feel comfortable, I feel so much more relaxed and have a much better time.

- Emma Watson

topic: Mean, Comfort, Feels

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

- Eric Ripert

topic: America, Comfort, Melting, Comfort Food, Roast Chicken

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

- Eric Temple Bell

source: Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

topic: Comfort, Fool

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Evil, Giving, Comfort, Inhuman

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

- Ernest Renan

topic: Suffering, Comfort, May