Quotes About Comfort

Chudo-Yudo chuckled and moved over to lay his huge head on Jenna's foot, generously allowing her to scratch his favorite spot under his chin in case it made her feel better. Barbara

There was something very healing about being with someone you trusted absolutely--even if you couldn't share a future and you both knew it.

Thanks, Baba. You are always such a comfort." She gave him a wry look. "I know. I've been considering becoming a counselor. Or possibly a nurse." Day shook his head. "If I were you, Baba Yaga, I'd stick to your day job.

When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.

smeared a balm over the end of it.

But if you read Christie or Allingham or Sayers, the detective always got his man. And you'll notice that the detective always operated outside the system—the stories expressed a comforting belief in the validity of individual action.

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When children are regressing, increase nurture. Usually the fighting or distancing is caused by fear. Parents can help the agitated child to slow down, accept comfort, talk about feelings, or improve his physical state. Gradually, children learn to seek out parents when they are hurting.

He died on the floor, but he was surrounded by music and by people who loved him,' said the pastor, as he knelt with them to pray. 'Many are the kings. whose death was not as good.

I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859

We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie

More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

Smoking cheap Spanish filthy sock-tobacco under a pine tree was so much better than trying to hold it together on escalators. There was something comforting about being literally lost when I was lost in every other way...

Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely.

One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will there ever be a comforting pair of slippers (pink, feathered) warming for me by the egg-shaped fireplace? Not unless I became a female character in a vintage Hollywood movie and paid a housekeeper to put them there.

For a man's greatest joy and comfort is a happy home, where he can close the door after his day's labours and find peace and solace beside the fireplace, enjoying the loving attentions of a blessed wife.

Oh cozy horror." ~Clara

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere." —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

I began to call friends and relatives. Some called me. They'd heard the news on the radio. Others just came by. I greeted each one in the foyer. Few words were spoken. Mostly, we embraced. People often say they don't know what to say to someone like me at a time like this. Nothing need be said. The presence of those you care about is comfort enough; a warm embrace communicates far more than words do.

Maybe most of all, Karl is like family because of how I feel when I'm around him: completely and unself-consciously myself.

Sometimes you just need a book near you and you can't explain why.

you have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221

High-tide grief calls for empathy, not solutions.