“[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.” GivingSelfSpiritFightingForceSeaComfortOceanSolutionsFleshCuresSecureShakesMelancholySaltDisgustingCradleSlapHealerSlothElementalsNegationLethargy Author:Marya Mannes
“For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.” ThinkingWholeWould BeEvilHeavenFeltGrowing UpGrowingComfortShakesMilkAlienationCouches Author:Alice Sebold
“Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.” NeedsFirstsDreamSufferingIndividualStrongSacrificeRevolutionVictoryComfortDeterminationDifficultyPerseveranceIndividualityValuableBetrayalRevolutionaryCrushShakesHardshipAssetsVery StrongInchesDiscouragingOrdealsNo FailureSnuffStrong Determination Book:Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
“But even as the fear racks my body, it soothes me, comforts me. Soldiers who get washed away in a rush of adrenaline don't survive. In war, fear is the woman your mother warned you about. You knew she was no good for you, but you couldn't shake her. You had to find a way to get along, because she wasn't going anywhere.” WayWarBodyMotherComfortSoldierShakesAdrenalineRacks Author:Hiroshi Sakurazaka
“Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.” WantBeautifulBornPerfectBabyComfortUglyShakesToddler Author:John Mulaney
“I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.” IfsI CanIdeasSufferingEconomyVirtueComfortPaidEmbraceShakesPsychicsSuccess Happiness Author:Hugh Laurie
“This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.” IfsThinkingGivingIdeasWantedForceGrowsMistakeComfortGiving UpChaosSavedIf I CouldShakesZoneComfort ZoneSave MeBiggest MistakeInvisible Monsters Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel