Comfort Quotes - Page 39

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy.

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

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.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

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

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.

You have to be comfortable in the uncomfortableness.

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

I think I can finally say I am at my most confident and comfortable out there, physically.

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.

Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

I think, for me, the main thing is feeling comfortable.