Comforting Quotes - Page 18

• In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.

  George Harrar

  Culture, Morality, Righteousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.

  Anna Thomas

  Children, Food, Kids

  Anna Thomas (2009). “Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

  Joseph Sobran

  Royal, Radical Change, Constitution

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• You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Mean, Perfect

  "Frank Gehry Modern Master". Interview With Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. February 15, 1998.

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• Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster!

  Jay Leno

  Beer, Garden, Two

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• Eat by Choice, Not by Habit combines the author's humor, deep compassion for others and knowledge about food in a way that makes me eager to follow her lead toward healthy eating-and more importantly, toward a healthy attitude about eating. She aptly teaches us all to frame our food issues in a language that is both liberating and comforting.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Attitude, Communication, Compassion

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• And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Want, Painting

  "The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin".

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• From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Food, Heart

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• The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

  David Alan Harvey

  Important, Answers, Convincing

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• It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

  Roger Ebert

  Fate, Thinking, Soul

  Roger Ebert (2000). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

  Anderson Cooper

  Life, Opportunity, One Direction

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• Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Music, Beauty Of Life, Elixir

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• Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

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• When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in a lovely pool of sauce whose ambrosial flavors are like nothing ever before tasted, but rather something comforting and savory, easy on the digestion - something that makes one feel, if even for only a minute, that one is safe.

  Laurie Colwin

  Long, Perfect, Life Is Hard

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• The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.

  Michael Lewis

  People, Able, World

  "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt". Book by Lewis Michael, March 31, 2014.

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• In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot - and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.

  David Bayles

  Giving, Choices, Rolling

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• Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Soul, Wish, Cost

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• Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Past, Needed, Ifs

  Giovanni Boccaccio (1930). “The Decameron of Giovanni Bocaccio”

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• That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Giving, Feelings, Way

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• We may not know what to do, but it is sufficient to know the One who knows. We all like specific direction; however, when we don't have it, knowing God is faithful and ever true to His promise, and that He has promised to be with us always, is comforting and keeps us stable until His time is right to speak to us more specifically.

  Joyce Meyer

  Knowing, Faithful, Promise

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• Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass consumption of hypnotic mechanized vulgarity, the need to confront man with the reality of his situation is greater than ever. For the dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness; to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions - and to laugh at it.

  Martin Esslin

  Baby, Lying, Reality

  Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.429, Vintage

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• Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

  Clark Moustakas

  Children, Escaping, Immature

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• There's obviously something that feels very good about being with a new filmmaker who's very excited, but I also think there's something very comforting in a director who's been around a few times. Both have their pros and cons.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Directors, Excited

  "Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

  Amelia Gray

  Morning, Sadness, Dating

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