Comfort Quotes

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  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Dream, Hate

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 01, 2017

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

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• The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

  David O. McKay

  Life Is, This Life, Relationship With God

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• May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Pain, Blessing, Woven

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.166, Conari Press

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• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Time, Not Giving Up

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Live Life, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

  Billy Graham

  Adversity, Reality, Religion

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Change, Single

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 28, 2013

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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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• Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

  Jack Canfield

  Life, Positivity, Want

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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

  Jane Austen

  Family, Happiness, Stay Strong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.381, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

  Bob Benson

  Jesus, Doe, Needs

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• I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

  Barack Obama

  God, Comforting, Agents

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.207, Canongate Books

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• All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

  John Keats

  Writing, Clean, Comfortable

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 17 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins(ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 186

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• Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

  George Eliot

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

  Ani DiFranco

  Strength, Individual Differences, Diversity

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• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Neale Donald Walsh's Little Book of Life: A User's Manual”, p.95, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

  James Boswell

  Writing, Yield, Joy

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

  T. Harv Eker

  Self Confidence, Opportunity, Names

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• I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

  Don Young

  Stress, War, College

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• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, House, Lust

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Positive, Courage

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