Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.
Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master.
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well. -Nellie Curtiss.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.
'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]
Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair, And at her heels a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.