Quotes About Comfort

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

Music heals all forms of misery

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

What is nobler, " she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

The words of the twenty-third Psalm had come back to her, verses Mutti had helped her memorize as a young girl--Elise Neumann

Humor is the honey in my tea.

They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he'd made upon waking up.

In times of sorrow, be still.

And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.

Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

God is always loving you.

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short.

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

Let your words to be a cushion to those who are around you, especially to those who are in a vulnerable state.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The power to heal is all in the hug.

This is reality, back home is routine.

Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives.

Why are you troubled? Trust in God.