Comfort Quote by May Sarton Download Open image “For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.” — May Sarton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comfort Conflict Desperate Dies Strength War
Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival, — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Sometimes life put us in difficult situations just to test if we have the strength to survive it. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“desperation had a way of making you find strength you thought you'd lost.” — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we… — Dennis Wholey Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza. — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image