Quotes About Comfort

I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

I want to be famous in my home.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one's own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.

To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you're made.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Writing a book and going underground are so similar. That fear of the unknown never really goes away. But, after a while, it becomes a perverse comfort

It wasn't true wilderness, was comfortingly close to civilization, but existed just enough apart to create a boundary. This was what most people wanted: to be close to but not part of . They didn't want the fearful unknown of a "pristine wilderness". They didn't want a soulless artificial life, either.