"The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."
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"When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place."
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"Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy."
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"Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well."
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"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."
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"I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides."
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"The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty."
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"The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received."
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"We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]"
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"Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others."
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"We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal."
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"The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes."
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"You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort."
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"A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher"
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"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage."
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"You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable."
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"It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."
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"Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings."
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"Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better."
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"Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good."
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