Reassuring Quotes

• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

  Franz Kafka

  Suffering, Diaries, Clarity

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

  Sharon Olds

  Baseball, Blow, World

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• In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus." “His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Hair, Voice

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.203, Penguin

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• When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting me be upset but reassuring me, of just being with me in a calming way. She always got in a flap, so I not only had my own baby panics, fears and terrors to deal with, but I had to cope with hers, too. Eventually I taught myself to remain calm when I was panicked, in order not to upset her. In a way, she had managed to put me in charge of her. At 18 months old, I was doing the parenting.

  John Cleese

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

  Auberon Waugh

  Dog, Attitude, Gay

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• Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

  Loraine Boettner

  Love, Faith, God

  Loraine Boettner (2017). “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

  Shana Alexander

  Faith, Astrology, Matter

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Eye, Loss, Color

  "You Must Remember This". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

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• There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

  Jack Gould

  Television, Worst

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• It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

  George Cukor

  People, Boss, Answers

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• Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Respect, Strong, Offering

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• Today let me reassure you, God knows right where you are and He knows how to get you to where you need to be. Even when things don’t go the way you planned, His hand is on you.

  Victoria Osteen

  Hands, Needs, Today

  FaceBook post by Victoria Osteen from Dec 27, 2012

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• It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

  Douglas Adams

  Stupid, Kitchen, Wonder

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.35, Del Rey

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• My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

  Rihanna

  Tattoo, Crazy, Lessons

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• The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  Carl Sagan

  Mistake, Ignorance, Errors

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

  Carl Sagan

  Media, People, Stupidity

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• Theres nothing more reassuring than a world thats crazier than you are.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  World

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• In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?

  Claire Danes

  Long, Way, Good Times

  "Claire Danes Goes Retail With 'Shopgirl" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

  Peter Dinklage

  College, Giving, Littles

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

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• Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

  Lewis Mumford

  Loyalty, Children, Race

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• Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

  Pam Brown

  Integrity, Glasses, Fine

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• Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

  Paul Kane

  Eye, Challenges, Balance

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• These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Wall, Airplane, Voice

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle’s shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn’t exactly reassuring. “Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?” asked Kyle. Or else Ben’s breath was really bad.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Thinking, Effort

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned: Mercy Thompson”, p.90, Hachette UK

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