Quotes About Comfort

Drinking during such an occasion was not simply comforting. More essentially, it proved liberating, as it freed the individual from mundane duties and returned him or her to a primeval state of spiritual solace.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, "Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.

For one thing, the victim role provides a sense of security by eliminating the need to change. It eliminates the need to even try.

Oddly enough, not everyone wants to be affected in a positive way. Some individuals are addicted to their negative feelings. Just as many drinking people place little value on physical sobriety and never get sober, so too, many of us place little value on our emotional sobriety and never get comfortable.

Malgus knew it was folly. Empires and the men who ruled empires could not stay sharp when surrounded by comfort, by peace.

Like a bridge over troubled waterI will lay me down.

Books are the soft landing at the end of a bumpy day.

When we're lonely, most of us can soothe ourselves by remembering the love that others have for us. This can be very comforting, even if these people are far away—sometimes even if they're no longer living. This ability to hold others close, even in their physical absence, is called object constancy.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

The conservative heretics were like all the others here in Dis: though they claimed to champion truth, in reality they loved something else more than truth—in this case, the comfort of their own smugness. It was a subtle form of idolatry, but idolatry nonetheless. Fancy that: feuding theological cousins—liberals and conservatives—the spitting image of each other, bedded down now side by side in flaming poetic justice.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness…. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted."

When you're in trouble, go and see your mother.

He realised that comfortable surroundings, indeed the gilded surroundings of his own life until then, and all the things that went with that, don't tend to produce happiness or fulfilment without some sense of love to go with them.

Come, speak low. The dark is not so dark.

Zelfkennis en zelfzorg. Knellende schoenen geven blaren, wandelen wordt hinken, hinken wordt strompelen. Wil ik opnieuw stevig in mijn schoenen staan, dan moet ik mijn voeten serieus nemen. Waarom heb ik blaren, hoe krijg ik die weg? Welk schoeisel past er bij mijn voeten? Welke schoenen wil ik voor welke gelegenheid? Koop ik schoenen voor mijn voeten of voor de ogen van de buitenwereld? Of voor de ogen van één iemand in de buitenwereld?

God is more concerned about our character than our comfort. HIs goal is not to pamper us physically, but to perfect us spiritually.

The older I get, the more I just prefer to sleep.

And I don't go outside of the house if I can help it.

He was hanging up his suit. She watched him straighten the pants. "You ought to throw out the underwear you're wearing," she said. "It's about to fall apart." "I like it when they get so soft, after I've had them a long time.

And I don't go out of the house if I can help it.

Everybody's intrigued by someone comfortable in their own skin because most of us aren't.

The people we love never leave us, Anna. You know that already. That's what I mean by spirit. I mean love.

People like what they know. It's human nature.