Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

I'm a creature of comfort.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

What I love about going home is that, if I turn my phone off or don't open my computer, nothing's changed. Obviously, the world has changed for me, but home looks and feels exactly the same.

Seattle was good for me. I was very comfortable there - not comfortable in terms of it was too easy, but I was at home, I was with my family and friends. It was a great life. I was home. But I think, for me, when I get too comfortable with the lifestyle and everything, I feel that my performances, my focus can go down.

We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model and society around us that is as easy and boxed as possible. We love creating boundaries and borders.

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.