Comforting Quotes - Page 4

• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

  Tom Wolfe

  Funny, Leadership, Believe

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• I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Things In Life, Able

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• The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

  Aesop

  Happiness, You Make Me Happy, Unhappy

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

  Jacques Prevert

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

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• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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• We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Taken, People, Broken

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 30, 2016

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• All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Regret

  The Dalai Lama (2008). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World”, p.71, Parallax Press

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• Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  Maxims and Reflections (1819)

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time. It's a mantra conveniently invoked when it is proposed that government do something the faithful don't like, and just as conveniently ignored whenever they want government to do something for them.

  Edward S. Herman

  Reality, Government, Faithful

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• God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.

  Dorothee Solle

  God, Lonely, Healing

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• The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Atmosphere, Cameras

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• A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Spring, Contagious, Acquaintance

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Love Is, Firsts

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

  Richard Dawkins

  Would Be, Injection, Morphine

  Interview with Sheena McDonald, 1995.

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• Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Robins, Said

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• There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.

  Ilona Andrews

  Easy, Not Sure, Ifs

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

  Gordon Allport

  Thinking, Intellectual, Heroism

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• It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so!

  Chris Hardwick

  Kindness, Past, Emotional

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.225, Penguin

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• The comforting thing for Australian actors is that there's a strong community in L.A. as well - it's almost like you swap one home for another. I didn't feel any pressure.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Strong, Home, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To have someone in the room with me is an absolute delight and makes it seem less impossible. It became a kind of comforting, joyful process.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Lonely, Writing, Two

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

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• I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Two, Decision

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• Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  People, Doubt, Promise

  "The Lonely Dead". Book by Michael Marshall Smith, 2004.

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