Quotes about comfort
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“Happiness can only flourish when people feel comfortable and secure. I pledge to you today that I will not tolerate any action that threatens the lives of our people and the security of our nation.”

Park Geun-hye (1952) eleventh President of South Korea

Excerpts from inaugural address (February 25, 2013)

Happiness, People, Feeling

“Fashion is the thing! The thing you can put on confidently. And at least you can breathe with comfort.”

Salman Aziz (1993) Bangladeshi independent author and artist

Sources:
https://everydaypower.com/fashion-quotes/
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8897547-fashion-is-the-thing-the-thing-you-can-put-on
https://www.quoteambition.com/fashion-quotes/
https://allauthor.com/quotes/341306/
https://www.have-clothes-will-travel.com/fashion-quotes-instagram-caption/

Confidence, Fashion

“I'm glad I can be comfortable as an African and singing my YouTube language when I drop songs, I drop beat songs.”

Niniola (1986) Nigerian singer-songwriter

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/niniola-femi-kuti-958136/amp/ Niniola speaking at an interview about her journey into music

Singing

“We create comfortable positions for ourselves that cannot be achieved at the green tables [of conversations]. We will not let ourselves be lied to.”

Roman Shukhevych (1907–1950) Commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1907-1950)

Source: Motyka, Grzegorz. Zapomnijcie o Giedroyciu: Polacy, Ukraińcy: IPN, 2008

“Growth occurs outside the comfort zone.
You can not expect to evolve as a well rounded individual if you are afraid to get dirty.
I am never regretful of having tragedy and loss any longer…for I see how strong these horrendous experiences have caused me to become a pillar of strength amongst others.
From every negative circumstance any of us experience…there is another part of us that becomes engorged with strength
which not only allows us to get through that terrible circumstance, but maintain ourselves once the trauma has diminished enough for us to see things more clearly in retrospect…and experience this wonderful inner strength.
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from 'I can't do this' to 'I MUST do this!'
Also, The struggles in your life creates empathy. One can relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love you nor care that they are intentionally trying to decimate you. It is when you are faced with pure evil…when the people who were your life change and turn on you…enjoying to make you suffer. They know what they are doing. They are responsible for your pain.
Don't give up.
Look within.
Don't wear white.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Life, Pain, People

“Haters are only distractions from your greater purpose. When you achieve your goals and success is no longer out of your comfort zone, not only will the haters be forgotten, but they will assuredly be looked upon as the prodigious fools that they are….”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Fools, Success

“There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Time

“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Soul, Light

“It wouldn't kill you to get out of your comfort zone a little bit.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.”

T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop

God

“Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness.

Sometimes it is comforting.

Most often, it isn't.”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Home, Sense, Waiting, Loneliness

“Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.

At any rate that afforded me some comfort.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

Silence

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Books, Light

“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”

Norbert Wiener book God & Golem, Inc.

Source: God & Golem, Inc. (1964), p. 69
Source: The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
Context: [T]he future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

Lie, World, Intelligence, Waiting

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Source: Geek Love

Love, Truth, Nature

“You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: I Am No One You Know: Stories

Thinking

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Silence

“Hal: "… Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Slaves of Socorro

Travel, Imagination

“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is…”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

People, Light, Horse

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

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

People

“Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

People, Silence, Drawing

“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Pain, Truth

“The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: My Unfair Godmother

Love, Shoe, Time

“If we knew each other's secrets, what comfort we would find.”

John Churton Collins (1848–1908) British literary critic

Variant: If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Secret

“And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

Dead

“Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Women, Men

“Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.”

Michael Card (1957) singer, songwriter, author, composer, Radio Host

Source: The Walk: The Life-changing Journey of Two Friends

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Love, Faith, Christ

“I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Light, Night

“The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Forgiveness

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Life, Happiness

“In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Love, Personality

“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.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Time

“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”

Barbara W. Tuchman book The Guns of August

Source: The Guns of August

Dead

“Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Life, People, Angels

“… we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.”

Nicole Krauss book Great House

Source: Great House

Life

“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”

Josh Waitzkin (1976) Chess player

Source: The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

Learning

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love

Strength to Love, p. 25
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Context: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.

Time, Courageous, Life, Business

“It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

God, Thinking

“Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Hurt