#comfort

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing. ↗

— LL Cool J

#build #comfortable #doing #forward #getting

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#correct #facts #i #know #now

Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits. ↗

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

#beauty

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour. ↗

— Lauren Dane

#friend #honesty #business

This world is too comfort to be changed. This world is too corrupt to be conserved. ↗

— Toba Beta

#comfort #conserved #corrupt #change

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#duties #given #great #habitually #heart

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#death #death-of-a-friend #death-of-a-loved-one #life-and-death #death

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#comfort-zone #death #prayer #death