Quotes About Comfort

Choosing our own comfort over hard conversations is the epitome of privilege, and it corrodes trust and moves us away from meaningful and lasting change.

We have to resist following them into the wilderness and trying to make it safer and more civilized. Every cell in our body will want to protect them from the hurt that comes with standing alone. But denying our children the opportunity to gain wisdom directly from the trees and dance in the moonlight with the other high lonesome renegades and limping outlaws is about our own fear and comfort. Their hearts need to know the wild too.

We found a better correlation between the number of times we modeled what asking for help looks like and how comfortable folks are with asking for help. Both giving and receiving help must be part of the culture, and we as leaders need to model both if we are committed to innovation and growth.

Rubin, Happier at Home

you can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you can't have both

The need is for someone to be fully present to the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining.

We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both.

The friend who is all about making it better and, out of her own discomfort, refuses to acknowledge that you can actually be crazy and make terrible choices: "You're exaggerating. It wasn't that bad. You rock. You're perfect. Everyone loves you.

Comfortable learning environments rarely lead to deep learning.

We may not always have a sense of belonging on the recess playground or at a big, fancy conference, but in that moment we knew that we belonged where it mattered the most—at home.

Hope is a function of struggle—we develop hope not during the easy or comfortable times, but through adversity and discomfort.

You want to feel comfortable, so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

Human approval is one of our most treasured idols, and the offering we must lay at its hungry feet is keeping others comfortable.

it's important to reality-check our nostalgic ideas by uncovering and examining the tradeoffs and contradictions that are often deeply buried in all of our memories. Were the comfort and safety of that past existence real? If so, were they at someone else's expense?

a reprieve like that "a tender mercy

if one couldn't be loved, one could at least be warm, comfortable and full, always.

Abba, You stretch wide Your loving arms to me in the darkest, loneliest moments of my life.

In the next few minutes, I prayed with her for healing. Then I asked her if she would find a quiet place every morning for the next thirty days, sit down in a chair, close her eyes, upturn her palms, and pray this one phrase over and over: ABBA, I BELONG TO YOU.

Your friendship has been like the refreshing shade of a vast tree in the noonday heat.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smile again.

We all know, in fact, that the insane ... derive a great deal of comfort and consolation from their imagination, that they enjoy their madness sufficiently to endure the thought that its validity does not extend beyond themselves.

The thought that my dear Heavenly Father is always near, giving me abundantly of all those things, which truly enrich life and make it sweet and beautiful, makes every deprivation seem of little moment compared with the countless blessings I enjoy.

Molly wanted to sway to sleep in the hammock of her children's breathing.