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"It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort"
"I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale."
"Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn."
"Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort."
"We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both."
"…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me."
"Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough."
"There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life."
"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"
"I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way."
"There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group."
"Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when."
"The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self."
"The more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand."
"The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity."
"Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient."
"There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow"
"Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die."
"Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone."