Comfort quotes

Comfort

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John F. Kennedy Politician
Comfort

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

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Ramakrishna Spiritual Leader
Comfort

"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
Comfort

"In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Comfort

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

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Comfort

"I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness."

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Muhammad Religious Leader
Comfort

"The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
Comfort

"At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it."

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