I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery.

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I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now.

—Lora Leigh in Forbidden Pleasure

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You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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God has… ordered things that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for there is no man without his faults, none without his burden. None is sufficient unto himself; none is wise in himself; therefore, we must support one another, comfort, help, teach, and advise one another.

—Thomas à Kempis

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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

—Lady Mary Worley Montagu

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