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“Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me.”

“If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.”

People Ifs Mind Moments Body Pleasure Security Comfort Waking

Author:Byron Katie

“I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.”

Ifs Long Comfort Zone Volunteer Comfort Zone If I Stay

Author:Eden Sher

“Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.”

People Ifs Humans Human Beings Wonder United States Comfort Europe Importance Fantastic Baths Gadgets Plumbing

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.”

Ifs Way Wanted Comfort Deserve Selfless Selfless Love

Author:Alan Moore

“If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.”

People Ifs Giving Feelings Pain Fall Lord Worry Comfort Give Me Worried Passages Good People Chapters Verses Falling Apart Psalms Feeling Pain

Author:Max Lucado

“Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.”

Ifs Men May Young Television Comfort Creatures Definitions Young Man Enjoyment Appropriate Nests Learn To Fly Appropriate Time High Definition Creature Comforts

Author:Dennis Rainey

“I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.”

Ifs Feels Guy Comfort Fairs Vanity Not Sure Zone Comfort Zone Vanity Fair Metrosexuals

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.”

Ifs Long Helping Problem Suffering Order Space Existence Comfort Remains Meaningful Servant Torture Sentient Beings

Author:Dalai Lama

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If our mother made us feel secure and proud in our masculinity, then we want to find that again in our wife. If we are really comfortable with our mother, we can even marry a woman who is a friend rather than an adversary, and form a true partnership.”

Ifs Want Feels Made Enough Form Mother Fall Ability Wife Proud Comfort Comfortable Falling In Love Secure Partnership Masculinity Femininity Adversaries

Author:Frank Pittman

“Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.”

Ifs Way Giving Children Made Ideas Certain Parent Opinion Advice Comfort Conviction Neighbor Experts Insecure Opposing Child Rearing Neighbors Friends

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave comfort - and grab that comfort wherever we can, even if it means breaking good habits.”

Ifs Feels Mean Self Habit Comfort Treats Angry Justified Crave Indulgence Resentful Good Habits Self Indulgence Authentic Happiness

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.”

“If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Kind America Values Trouble Comfort Weak Vote Democrat Aids Voters Good People Saddam Hussein Free Society Spineless Good Values

Author:William J. Clinton

“Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.”

Ifs Knows Wells Asks Levels Comfort Coaches Ask Me Aggressive Teammate

Author:Chris Copeland

“As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.”

Ifs Way Want Done Artist Grows Roles Comfort Actresses Get Better Zone Comfort Zone If I Stay

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”

Ifs Thinking Men Matter Lasts Nations Race Comfort Fairs Slavery Ice Ruins Cream Ice Cream Cheaper Completion Decoration Robbing Vanilla

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.”

Ifs Men Humans May Loses Wealth One Thing Influence Position Comfort Labor Burden Sympathy Resignation

Author:Frederic Farrar

“No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.”

Ifs Use Growth Effort Class Style Circumstances Comfort Comfortable Standards Population Accustomed Population Growth

Author:Millicent Fawcett

“Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness is Adophe Monod at his best. It is a masterpiece, bringing together profound comfort, realistic understanding, practical wisdom, and heavenly glory for every believer and, in a special way, for those who are preparing for or are working directly in some ministry. By the Spirit's grace, if you digest Monod's book slowly, seriously, and prayerfully, you will make great spiritual gain as you engage in holy warfare against your own temptations and lusts. You really must read this book.”

“If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.”

Ifs Should Night Fashion Comfort Clothes Burden Protection Relief

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.”

Ifs Wells May Whole Belief Company Comfort Essentials Standards Expectations Presses Metaphor Reasonable Moderates Something Better Sustenance Picnics Sanguine

Author:P. D. James

“So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.”

Ifs Want Needs Wells Said Desire Wish Sleep Issues Objects Comfort Messages Hunger Satisfaction Chains Charm Breasts Permit Milk Provoking Organisms Ache Infancy Swallowing Wailing

Author:William H. Gass

“It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.”

Ifs Feels Children Helping Parent Fine Comfort Adults Despite Parenthood Imperfection Feel Better Get Over Grandchildren Nurturing Adult Children

Author:Eda LeShan

“It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.”

Ifs Knows Want May Children Matter Age Form Turns Comfort Connections Our Children Your Children Dramatic Twelve Adulthood Adolescence Eleven

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.”

“I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Comfort Creating Music Is Zone Comfort Zone Bizarre

Author:Lauryn Hill

“The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to help him locate it, and when the commissioners called him in to testify, he told them, essentially, that he couldn't remember what it looked like. Now, if Richard Nixon had claimed something like that you would at least have had the comfort of knowing he was lying. You could trust Nixon that way. But with this president, you have this nagging feeling that he's telling the truth.”

Ifs Way Helping Feelings Funny Remember Lying President Knowing Policy Comfort Telling The Truth Foreign Policy Distinguished Nagging Commissioners Reaganomics

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.”

People Ifs Writing Littles Comfort Wilderness

Author:Tim Cahill

“Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you. If you speak the truth and someone gets mad at you, don't be upset, but take comfort in the words of the Lord: Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of truth, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:10).”

“And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.”

“If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.”

“If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.”

Ifs Wells Desire Comfort Battle Command Officers Instruction Marine Corps Military Leadership Command And Control Military Training

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.”

Ifs Men Want Whole Pain Trouble Comfort Difficulty Whole Life Corpses Coping

Author:Menander

“Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.”

“If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.”

Ifs Children Wealth Comfort This Life Hated Apostles God's Love Apostle Paul Health Wealth

Author:John Piper

“Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?”

“Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.”

People Ifs Men Want Care Poor Rich Rights Week Position He Man Comfort Six Take Care Protest Want Me Parliament Great People Defenders Cottages Large Family Infringement

Author:John Bright

“To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.”

Ifs Matter Hands Religion Belief Wish Hell Source Comfort Hideous Cowardly Fiery Avengers

Book:Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

“We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity says you can have red bell peppers instead of green, rib eyes instead of sirloin, and romaine instead of iceberg. It's not about spending everything you make, but enjoying what you do spend without felling guilty about it ... The positive feelings and emotions that prosperous spending brings is what attracts more positive things in your life.”

“If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.”

Ifs Men Wells Littles Wife Land Comfort Husband Concern Divorce Every Man Chiefs Well Being Prime

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.”

Ifs World Giving Should Stills Soul Joy Pleasure Son Amount Comfort Give Me Gods Will My Soul Cups Ease Drains Thirsty Dregs

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.”

Ifs World Culture Opportunity Generations Information This World Comfort Succeed Standards Resources Focused Endless Privacy Longevity Inheritance Navigate

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")”

Ifs Feels Mean Causes Growing Comfort Uncomfortable Zone Territory Passages Celebration Savages Comfort Zone Unfamiliar Rowing Unfamiliar Territory

Author:Roz Savage

“If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Stills Ideas Real Character Stuff Interesting Attention Building Comfort Shots Sentences Pay Attention Ease Interesting Stuff

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.”

Ifs World Giving Heart Wish This World Comfort Longing Painful Quitting Discontent Banishment

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”

Ifs Ends Comfort Contentment What If Tranquility

Book:The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

“I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Soul Character Able Actors Found Comfort Anxiety Portraying Stuttering Playing Someone Anxiety Attacks

Author:Pam Grier

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