Comfort in Familiarity Quotes

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

I know, every time I get somewhere, it'll be strange. But if I understand correctly, I also have fans here and it reassures me.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.

Give me one good reason why I should never make a change, baby if you hold me then all of this will go away.

It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.

Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home.

To me, I'm sort of like Dorothy in 'The Wiz.' It kind of parallels my life. It's a story that reminds me... that home is where the love is. So if I go to Tampa or St. Pete, and I feel the love there, that's my home. That's where the love is.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!