#table

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#jerry-bridges #respectable-sins #worldliness #respect

He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos. ↗

— Beth Revis

#stable #chaos

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#drugs #ecstasy #empathy

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college. ↗

— Adam Ant

#college #i #ill #just #left

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ↗

— Mark Twain

#cannot #comfortable #his #man #own

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#considered #friends #me #mother #only

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it? ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#am #being #discover #hard #i

I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#comfortable #confident #guys #i #know

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#camera #completely #conversation #could #go

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#comfortable #daughters #denying #feel #i