“I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.” IfsKnowsWayGivingFeelsUseMotherStreetsComfortableSolutionsDoctorsTwentiesBordersMailRefugeeDeprivationRaphaelKosovoDoctors Without Borders Author:Anne Lamott
“Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.” HappenedComfortableTwentiesTwenty OneHiroshimaScientific Truth Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingYearsStillsTwoProblemOrderChoicesBitsDyingHavensPlanetsShapesComfortableYears AgoOkayTwentiesCamerasComplexesPhotographerTwo YearsClueEightyOur PlanetTwenty TwoTwo Years AgoComplex Problems Author:Eugene Richards
“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.” FeelsTwoComfortableTwentiesSevenMathPocketsSlipsTwelveTwenty TwoPigletPooh And PigletPooh Piglet Book:Winnie-the-Pooh Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.” PeoplePersonsMadeLightFacesHoursDecisionHappenedComfortableTwentiesShiningDivorceTragicDubiousDarkest Hour Author:Cecelia Ahern
“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” WorldYearsLittlesHomeExistenceRichBlessingComfortableTwentiesCleverDistressDispositionHandsomeTwenty OneEmmaVexHappy Disposition Book:Emma: By Jane Austen Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.” TakenHappenedColorBrotherComfortableScientistTwentiesPhotographExpectedMagazinesMy BrotherAlmightyMechanicTwenty OneHiroshimaScientific Truth Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.” IfsThinkingYearsSometimesEventsThousandComfortableOptimismTwentiesRemoveThousand YearsTechnologicalTranscendental Author:Vernor Vinge