"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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"The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers ."
"Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room."
"Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed."
"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."
"Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable."
"Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress."
"I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated."
"Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance."
"I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love."
"What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it."
"A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition."
"And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react."
"How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital."
"Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods."
"Make sure you comfort everybody, because you have so much power. The influence you do have, make sure you use that for the right things that's going to propel you, and propel your company. It's not always about making profit. I know y'all know how to make profit, and I know that's what it's about! But I'm very happy that I can come here and tell you I'm someone that has not been driven by the profit. You can succeed with the people."
"The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control."
"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it."
"Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world."
"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."