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“We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.”

People Pain Challenges Comfort Notion Selling Therapy Injury Lots Of Money

Author:Daniel Lieberman

“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.”

“Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love of another person, of country, of God, of an idea, love is fundamentally an intense devotion to this notion that something is bigger than us. Love is ultimately larger than friendship, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, or joy. Indeed, as the Four Wise Ones once said, it may be all you need.”

Needs May Persons Said Ideas Country Feelings Joy Love Is Existence Worry Wise Four Comfort Bigger Notion Devotion Intense Ceremony

Author:Daniel Levitin

“Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.”

Needs Giving May Father Leader Comfort Authority Concepts Absolutes Notion Grounded Daddy Those In Need

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”

Literature Term Particular Comfort Survival Notion Catastrophe

Author:Iris Murdoch

“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.”

Ifs Knows Moments Difficult Know How Doors Comfort Taste Notion Abundance Within Reach Difficult Moments Apricots

Author:Isabel Allende

“No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.”

Thinking Said Matter Effort Trouble Comfort No Matter What Notion Breasts Moron

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?”

Doe Used Certain Individual Belief Comfort Notion Peculiar Spoilt Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.”