Quotes About Comfort

rarely get the families we deserve, baby girl. That's what chocolate is for.

Make the rocking chair a haven, a place to concentrate totally on each other and on the developing bond.

It is important to note that children are rarely as unaware of their environment as they appear to be during withdrawal. In fact, many adopted toddlers have amazing insight and memory of people and events, and are astute observers, even when they appear oblivious of their surroundings. Therefore, it is important not to stop giving comfort, support, and structure. Those efforts are received and processed on some level even if not immediately apparent in the child's overt behavior.

I won't bite." "Are you sure?" My voice was rough. "I won't bite right now," he said with a ghost of a smile. The soft expression bemused me enough so that the gentle patting lured me to the recliner. Logan wrapped strong arms around me and pulled me into his lap. My butt fit him like we were interlocking puzzle pieces.

Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

It was so easy for women,their arms opened out instinctively and they gathered in whatever hurt there was and that was that, they didn't even have to think about it.

he could see now that it was possible; that someone might be in so much pain they couldn't even hear what anyone else said, far less be comforted by it.

Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. (II Corinthians

Believing in God was easy with Mom at my side.

I bite the olive again. Again the bitter salt crisp ravishes my tongue. "If this is vanity, vanity let it be." The golden moments flit by and I heed them not. For am I not comfortably seated and eating an olive! Go hang yourself, you who have never been comfortably seated and eating an olive!

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.

Revel Chocolate Dump Cake   Prep time: 60 minutes Servings: 6   Ingredients:   1 pack yellow cake mix 1 pack instant chocolate pudding mix 4 eggs, beaten 2/3 cup butter, melted 2/3 cup white sugar 1/3 cup water 1 cup sour cream 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips   Directions:   Set oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients together in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Give us a song to cheer        Our weary hearts,               a song of home,        And friends we love so dear.

Florence tucked Jack's blanket tighter around him. "There, soldier. Warmer now?

What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some way inferior, the general population becomes less concerned with how they are treated, even in the face of evidence of cruelty and abuse. In Ireland's case, the thousands of victims of industrial schools bear witness to a society unwilling to question its own comfortable certainties out of a fear that those beliefs might turn out to have been built on sand.

We started off, he and I, and the girl between us. She shivered as the cold struck her; he pulled the sheepskins higher, and put his arm with a fold of his cloak about her shoulders. I felt a sudden rush of the past upon me; for a moment grief pierced me like a winter night; yet it came to me like an old grief, I had suffered it long since and now it was behind me.

If only the clouds would lift, and she could sit down and read, she knew that she would feel better at once.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Elizabeth's tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knew it would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I'd been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any I'd ever known. The barrenness was indescribable. The emptiness that opened up in me seemed to stretch on forever; I could see no end to it, could find no source of comfort in it, could not imagine any way out.