From this cooking experience with Ina, I realized that comfort cravings--for Meatloaf, Pot Roast, Perfect Mac 'n Cheese--are shared by every crowd.
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Once you start stepping out and gaining new success (and fun experiences), you'll realize your comfort zone isn't so comfortable after all.
There's a mourning involved when we finally realize that comfort and compassion are not something a certain person has to give.
"It took me years to realize that comfort isn't necessarily complacence, and that my hunger to be somewhere else was really just a desire to explore, not an indictment of the place I was leaving". There's all this and so much more: Herzog looks, listens and gives us dozens of real characters and plenty of reasons to leave home.
After recognizing the comfort that could be found in writing, she also realized that same comfort could be taken further through storytelling.
The kids, I realized, were my comfort and company, and that brought its own set of problems: should the kids be my comfort and company?
For the first time, Sharmeen realized that the comforts she had always taken for granted were uncommon in Karachi.
This woman moved into a new comfort zone only after she realized that she had no comfort zone at all in her marriage.
A 12% reduction in energy consumption and a 5% improvement in occupant comfort are realized as compared to the baseline control.
Initially it felt odd to sit and talk to a stranger about my feelings and deepest fears, but over time I realized that it was comforting to have a non-family member listen to me, unbiased and nonjudgmental, and try to help me confront my suppressed anxieties that were manifesting in different ways and undoubtedly affecting the quality of my life.
