Quotes About Comfort

We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Most people simply aren't unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown

Soon the cottage was filled with the familiar, homely smell of frying onions. It escaped from the stove, crept through the kitchen, sniffed along the bottom of the closed front room door and wound its way stealthily up the crooked staircase, even under the door of Anna's bedroom. But even this, the most delicious, hungry-making smell in the world, was unable to rouse her.

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.

Joan Wester Anderson

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

Life is a series of solo experiences made bearable by the comfort of friends. - Kiki Lowenstein

The worst part of being a parent is knowing you'll make mistakes, and fearing them, and feeling the pain that accompanies the inevitability of letting your child down. But two people can better strategize. Two people can talk through the process. Two people can bear the disappointments more fully and comfort each other with the reminder "we did our best.

Minnie Pearl once said, "Laughter is God's hand on the shoulder of a weary world.

I have had my share of trouble and sickness but always somewhere in me there is a little spot of warmth and joy to make it all easier, like a traveler's fire burning out in the wilderness on a cold night.

a dog would be comfortably companionable and an uncomplicated distraction from the inside of his own head, and that one could safely say, out loud

Just let me be strong for you for a minute, okay?" He said softly. "You've held on for a long time, sweetheart. Nobody can say you haven't been strong. But it's been a hell of a night, so why don't you let me hold you and help you right now, okay?

If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn't be so grouchy in the morning.

Good Friends are like sunshine. A day is gloomy without them.

Empty calories taste so good when you're down in the dumps.

Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.

Of all the things Tiger Lily had thought she might have to be for Peter—strong, brave; to be big and to keep up—she had never thought that the one thing he wanted most from her was simply to show that she believed in him, always and without fail. For Peter, who feared losing so much, this was a great comfort indeed.

But you are the only person I can show myself to. You always made my rough edges feel real.

Gerdi didn't really understand.Cammy liked being quiet.She liked bingo.She wouldn't mind living in a cozy little hole,like a rabbit.

She had the blissful confidence of someone who had never been put in a pot of turkey broth to die.