Comforting Quotes - Page 2

• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Knowing, Feelings, Way

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• If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

  "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Believe, Harm, Seems

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.75, Vintage

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• If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Anarchy, World

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

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• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  Dan Rather

  Sympathy, Courage, Cancer

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

  Marc Jacobs

  Everyday, World, Luxurious

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• Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Healthy, Sometimes

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• It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Seems

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

  Candace Bushnell

  Baby, Falling In Love, Mistake

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

  Howard Storm

  Death, Christian, Religious

  Howard Storm (2005). “My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life”, p.51, Harmony

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

  Michael Flanders

  Jobs, Purpose, Half

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• It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

  Stone Gossard

  Real, Years, Band

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• I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

  Jared Leto

  People, House, Rooms

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• The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Banking, World

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• A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Doe, May, Belief

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.16, New World Library

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• Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Thinking, Government

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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