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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

                                                                 —Kahlil Gibran

 

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can’t bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.            —Julian Schnabel

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.

                                                                      —C.S. Lewis

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.                     —Rebecca West

 

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.                                          —Alexis de Tocqueville

 

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.   —Iris Murdoch

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.   —Iris Murdoch

 

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.      —Ani DiFranco

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

                                                        —Finley Peter Dunne

 

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.                             —Alan Alda

 

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.           

                                                        —Frank Lloyd Wright

 

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.   —Lao Tzu

 

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.       —William Butler Yeats

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