Comforting Quotes - Page 17

• It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Past, People, Seductive

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• No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Brother, Kindness

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• Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.

  Susan Howe

  Children, Writing, Vivid

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• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  Ian Ziering

  Old Friends

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• By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Humble, Soul

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• Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so far, this gesture seems natural and comforting. I don't want him to stop and he doesn't. He's still stroking my hair when I fall asleep.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Sleep, Kissing

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• My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

  Dagmara Dominczyk

  Smell, Skins, Herbs

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• Im a ridiculous sci-fi fan. In fact, I admit it freely; my manager is horrified. I just recently bought seasons two through five of Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD. And Ive watched all the episodes, half on the plane and a few of them as I was going to sleep last night. Theres something about sci-fi thats comforting.

  Emma Caulfield

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Age, Accepting

  "Jennifer Lopez: February 2013 Cover". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 3, 2013.

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• There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Believe, Grace

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• If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Real, Data

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Flower, Sadness, Thinking

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1998). “Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, p.9, City Lights Books

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• God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Home, Class, Pheromones

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.66, St. Martin's Press

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• This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lonely, Bricks, Cold

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.265, Scholastic UK

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• For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

  Werner Herzog

  Self, Breathing, Long

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

  Mahesh Babu

  Wealth, Good Work, Increase

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• At the very least i should fear you. some would say that I should hate you." "Many would say that." "Yet i neither fear nor hate you." "You-you are comforting me. Giving me sanctuary. Why, Grandma?" Aurox asked. "Because I believe in the power of love. I believe in chosing Light over Darkness-happiness over hatred-trust over skeptism.

  P. C. Cast

  Hate, Believe, Grandma

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• If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

  David Levithan

  Definitions, Want, Painful

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• John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

  Jim Cummings

  Wind Blowing, Voice, Kind

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• The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Heart, Thinking, Sorrow

  Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Easy comfort isn't comforting

  John Green

  Comfort, Easy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.86, Penguin

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• I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.

  Ann Aguirre

  Girl, Arms, Sparks

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.37, Feiwel & Friends

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• You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Lying, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Commitment, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.30, Bantam

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