Comfortable Quotes

Some individuals have the courage to make it, even feel the need to do so; for them the quest is a necessity, not an option. Most people setting out on such journeys are never heard from again, but part of the romance of any field lies in keeping the dream alive, in not settling for what is familiar and comfortable.

~ Gino Segrè

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

~ Clifton Fadiman

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.

~ Ray Bradbury

Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.

~ Amanda Mosher

Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what they are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.

~ Augusten Burroughs

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of the truth hiding behind their endearingly smooth textures and tender soothing colours.Secrets could be so irresistibly beautiful...

~ Simona Panova

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves down…Do we need to remain the victim so strongly that we pull the ceiling down upon our own heads? There is a comfort in the familiar. Also, it is important to us to be in control because as children being abused we were not at all in control. In self-sabotage we can be both the victim & the victimizer.

~ Maureen Brady

Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

being different can work for the individual who are comfortable with themselves, and most importantly work hard to achieve greatness.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

~ Ruta Sepetys

For a Comfortable Journey of Life,Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.

~ Ednan Ali

[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).

~ John Scalzi

Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.

~ Peggy Lampman

God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To have with somebody relationship or to be friends or something, you must make him nerves to feel nerves, then you should make him to feel comfortable - I got you, you just believed in this, you don't need to make him nerves. That's a joke!You must make him vulnerable so to possess him.

~ Deyth Banger

We may not have the choice to be rich or comfortable, but whatever happens; we do always have the choice to be an educated person.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Forsake it in the morning. Do not ring it the next day.Make no commitment to comfort.

~ Taylor Patton

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.

~ Chila Woychik

Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of “comfortability.” They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them.

~ A.w. Tozer

Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader's worst enemies

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Lovely high ceilings,' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.

~ Phoebe Stone

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

~ Terence Mckenna

She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light drifting above her, and a smell like a herb garden. Taggle was a long warmth stretched out at one side, his chin in her hand, his tail curled over her neck. She thought they might be in heaven.Taggle farted.Plain Kate coughed and sneezed. And then she really was awake.

~ Erin Bow

You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when the mind is comfortable. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. You begin with what is comfortable and never experience what is uncomfortable when you know the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

~ Zhuangzi

If you are being swept into some current that is not comfortable, or not in harmony with your desire, you must remember that couldn't happen if you weren't offering a vibration that matched it in some way. If you're vibrating differently from that, you're not having that experience.

~ Abraham Hicks

Rules for Disappearing by Witness Protection Prisoner #18A7R04M: Don’t fall into a routine. Shake things up. Doing the same thing over and over makes you feel comfortable. And feeling comfortable is bad.

~ Ashley Elston

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes.

~ Jodi Picoult

During certain periods of our lives, we may listen to a particular song that touches our hearts so much that we end up repeating the song for the umpteenth time. My question is, how would you know the next song will also touch your heart if you don't allow the playlist to flow? This happens to us in real life; sometimes we get too comfortable with one thing such that we don't allow for other experiences and opportunities.

~ Oscar Bimpong

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

~ Lebron James

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

~ Anthea Turner

When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space.

~ Stacy Keibler

When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

~ Evan Spiegel

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

~ Fran Lebowitz