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“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.”

Form Views Behinds Steps Comfort Harmony Misery Bliss Strife Woe Hue

Book:The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings

Source: The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings

“I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.”

Way Want Causes Views Comfort Offers Patient Offering Personal Views

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?”

Ifs Heart Asks Answers Views Existence Share Comfort Hatred Strikes Bless God Bless

Author:Steven Erikson

“From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.”

Ifs Kind Views Cases Sacrifice Comfort Cost Point Of View Leisure Minimum Wages Items Employers Compensation Workmen Automation Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.”

Men Philosophy Whole Shows Universe Views Moral Comfort Ethics Economics Mere Complexes Simplicity Point Of View Tea Proportion Geometry Cleanliness Hygiene Man And Nature

Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.”

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Author:Willem Dafoe

“So when you feel this time approaching, and your comfort zones in view. Stop and think about what you're feeling, and see if what you're feeling is true.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Feelings Views Comfort Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Julie Hebert

“I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”

Source: The Hour of the Star

“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.”