Comfort Quote by Andy Rooney

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

— Mason Cooley

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people,…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

We all cling to what's familiar.

— Anonymous

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

— Rene Magritte

The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us,…

— Eric Metaxas

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity.…

— Henry Petroski

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

— Marina Abramovic

Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad…

— Greg Behrendt

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

— Roger Ebert

“It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that…

— Derek Thompson

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

— Julia Ward Howe

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

— Jane Hirshfield