To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good read more

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the read more

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and read more

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's read more

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect read more

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not read more

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.