Embrace the Warmth: 20 Inspirational Quotes About Comfort

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

- Vincent van Gogh

"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them."

- Veronica Roth

"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort."

- E.B. White

"When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."

- Lemony Snicket

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

"I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone."

- Brian Grazer

"Great things don’t come from comfort zones."

- Roy Bennett

"You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"If you don’t step out of your comfort zone and face your fears, the number of situations that make you uncomfortable will keep growing."

- Theo Pistorius

"The other perfect way to defeat yourself is stay within your comfort zone – a zone where you have felt comfortable for years, or a comfort zone conditioned by your parents who may have repeatedly told you that you have to stick to a job just to make sure you have a secure paycheck. This kind of conditioning will mean that you will have to be adaptive, flexible and willing to move into an uncomfortable zone – a zone that makes you stretch to accomplish what you want."

- Byron Pulsifer

"As an artist, you want to stretch. That’s the only way you’re going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I’ve done before, then I’m never going to get better as an actress."

- Jurnee Smollett

"The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears."

- Dan Stevens

"I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone."

- Jennifer Echols

"The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was ‘do it scared.’ And no matter if you’re scared, just go ahead and do it anyway, because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone."

- Sherri Shepherd

"You have to keep challenging yourself. I’ve always tried to do that, and I’m not saying I’ve always been successful. Maybe I’ve rewritten the same song; it’s inevitable, but I’ve always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can’t stick in your little comfort zone."

- Paul Weller

"I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that’s what keeps you alive. That’s what keeps you from getting stale."

- Queen Rania of Jordan

"I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing."

- Ashton Kutcher

"I don’t like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone."

- Vanessa Hudgens

"It’s when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It’s always beyond what you’ve ever done."

- Bruce Wilkinson

"When you go out of your comfort zone and it works, there’s nothing more satisfying."

- Kristen Wiig

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a ‘safe comfort zone’. This is a convenient name depicting the process of degeneration."

- Manoj Arora

"Comfort is the enemy of achievement."

- Farrah Gray

"Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!"

- T. Harv Eker

"Although when you first step out of your comfort zone it may feel difficult and fearful, you will at some point become comfortable again."

- Wendy Hearn

"I’ve learned in my life that it is important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you’re not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do."

- J.R. Martinez

"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn’t, you would already possess it, would you not?"

- Chris Murray

"To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."

- Peter McWilliams

"What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared."

- Michael Fassbender

"We all need to stand at a window from time to time to reflect on our lives and what we are doing or not doing, what we could do, but are too afraid to do or too caught up in our own comfort zone to push just a little harder to move through these limitations."

- Byron Pulsifer

"When we become comfortable, do you know what happens around us? Absolutely nothing. Each day becomes just like the one before. We do what we have always done, therefore we get what we have always gotten."

- Kip Davis

"People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually."

- Brian Eno

"I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear."

- Tan Le

"I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them."

- Gore Verbinski

"In the long run, our comfort zone becomes our uncomfortable zone."

- Charles F. Glassman

"If your circle doesn’t challenge you to grow beyond your comfort zone, then you are definitely in the wrong circle."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of your comfort zone your biggest challenge."

- Manoj Arora

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

- John A. Shedd

"Leaving your comfort zone is hard. Staying broke is hard. Pick your hard."

- Grant Cardone

"Great things never came from comfort zones."

- Anonymous

"A comfort zone is a beautiful place – but nothing ever grows there."

- Anonymous

"Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking."

- Edward Whitacre, Jr.

"Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffin, you die."

- Stan Dale

"Your comfort zone is not a place that you want to remain in. Dare, discover, be all that you can be."

- Anonymous

"Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort."

- Peter McWilliams

"Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end, because in the end, it shows you a whole new world. Make an attempt."

- Anonymous

"My friend, living one’s comfort zone is no small chore! Trust me, I’ve learned this first hand. I can say that when all’s said and done it’s worth it!"

- Josh Hinds

"Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort."

- Charles F. Glassman

"There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed."

- Hubert Selby Jr.

"I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change."

- Samuel Larsen

"It’s good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone."

- Mary-Louise Parker

"Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable’, but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone."

- Bear Grylls

"We tend to be held back from our goals by the simplicity of our comfort zones, but just how comfortable are we? Wouldn’t we be more content living in our dreams?"

- Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long."

- Eden Sher

"So when you feel this time approaching, and your comfort zone’s in view. Stop and think about what you’re feeling, and see if what you’re feeling is true."

- Julie Hebert

"You know something, it’s not easy to break out of your comfort zone. People will tear you down, tell you you shouldn’t have bothered in the first place. But let me tell you something, there’s not much of a difference between a stadium full with cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming abuse at you. They’re both just making a lot of noise. How you take it is up to you. Convince yourself they’re cheering for you. You do that, and someday, they will."

- Glee

"The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"If you remain in your comfort zone, you will not go any further."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Do something uncomfortable today. By stepping out of your box, you don’t have to settle for what you are – you get to create who you want to become."

- Howard Walstein

"As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal."

- Robin S. Sharma

"If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness."

- Les Brown

"If you’re in a comfort zone, afraid to venture out, remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt."

- Anonymous

"Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career."

- Chris Rock

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

- Denis Waitley

"Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear."

- Kyra Davis

"Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable."

- Katie Couric

"I used to have a comfort zone where I knew I wouldn’t fail. The same four walls and busywork were really more like jail."

- Anonymous

"I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am comforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive."

"Alas! said the other, “it was love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sensible beings, love, tender love."

"I wish I could comfort all who suffer from the heart. Will you let me be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it?"

"The love that I wanted so desperately: this isn’t what I thought it would feel like. It’s made me dizzy and it’s grounded me. It’s made me laugh when nothing is funny. It shimmers and it sparks, but it can be comfortable, too, a sleepy smile and a soft touch and a quiet, steady breath."

"I want to be held. I’m seventeen years old, but I want someone to hold me like how my mom held me when I was a little kid."

"Not that water is any use to a dead body,” he said to himself, “but the feeling that you’re doing something, when there’s obviously nothing to be done, is a great comfort."

"You are our one comfort, you are everything to us."

"When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go."

"When your father was living and we were poor, you comforted us simply by being with us."