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• Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

  Sherry Turkle

  Being Alone, Expectations, Feelings

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.154, Basic Books

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• The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Accurate, Knows

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• That all of God’s men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Men, Earth, Today

  J. Vernon McGee (1983). “1 Corinthians Through Revelation”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

  Raymond Aubrac

  Jobs, Giving, Easy

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• Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

  Regina Brett

  Hate, Tombstone, People

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• Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

  Megan Boyle

  Forever, Stranger, Mass

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• I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

  Louis C. K.

  Taken, Thinking, Done

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• In our own storms in life the Savior is our solace and our sanctuary. If we seek peace, we must come unto Him, the Man who suffered for mankind, who committed His life to healing the sick and comforting the disconsolate, is mindful of your sufferings, doubts, and heartaches. Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Healing, Mean, Men

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• Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

  Jane Smiley

  Enlightening, Currents, Novel

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.279, Anchor

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• I think it’s very comforting for people to put me in a box. ‘Oh, she’s a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.’

  Marissa Mayer

  Girl, Thinking, Weekend

  "Putting a Bolder Face on Google". Interview with Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, School, World

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• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Used

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• Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.

  Regina Brett

  Mom, Children, Tears

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• Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

  Patrick Ness

  Dying

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, People, Live Your Life

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• Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

  Colin Powell

  Justice, Needs, Speech

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• There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

  Sue Miller

  Serious, Illusion, False Hope

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• It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.

  Claudio Magris

  Art, Should Have, Creating

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

  David Quammen

  Book, Intellectual, Fleeting

  David Quammen (2012). “The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Romance, Promise, Triumph

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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• Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

  Sandra Lee

  Baking Cookies, Littles, Comfort Food

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• It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

  Marcel Proust

  Sweet, War, Lying

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fall, Bell Jar, Knows

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Thinking, Childhood, Vices

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• Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.

  Robert Adams

  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

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