Quotes About Comfort

The dark purr of his voice was almost soothing.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

Poker players live in a world where that risk is made explicit. They can get comfortable with uncertainty because they put it up front in their decisions. Ignoring the risk and uncertainty in every decision might make us feel better in the short run, but the cost to the quality of our decision-making can be immense. If we can find ways to become more comfortable with uncertainty, we can see the world more accurately and be better for it.

What good poker players and good decision-makers have in common is their comfort with the world being an uncertain and unpredictable place. They understand that they can almost never know exactly how something will turn out. They embrace that uncertainty and, instead of focusing on being sure, they try to figure out how unsure they are, making their best guess at the chances that different outcomes will occur.

In the movie, the matrix was built to be a more comfortable version of the world. Our brains, likewise, have evolved to make our version of the world more comfortable: our beliefs are nearly always correct; favorable outcomes are the result of our skill; there are plausible reasons why unfavorable outcomes are beyond our control; and we compare favorably with our peers. We deny or at least dilute the most painful parts of the message.

Are you ready to really wrap your arms around uncertainty, like great decision-makers do? Are you ready to embrace this redefinition of wrong, and to recognize you are always guessing and that those guesses drive how you place your resources? Getting comfortable with this realignment, and all the good things that follow, starts with recognizing that you've been betting all along.

Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché.

the pain I was about to inflict on myself would be nothing compared to the suffering experienced in death camps. This thought gave me courage and heightened my determination. Also, knowing that hundreds of other women had been through the same thing was a comfort to me.

Nothing equaled the bliss at the end of the day, after elbowing one's way with the first passengers into the crowded RER, and inching as close as possible to the center aisle seats, and standing for these stations, of finally sitting down and closing one's eyes, or doing a crossword.

Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat.

Happiness is an unexpected hug.

Hope is grief's best music.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.

All you need is love... and a good cup of coffee.

Make yourself at home… clean my kitchen.

Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.

May he rest in peace.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

The Trevor Romain Foundation is a project that I am most proud to be a part of. They work with the USO and help provide support and comfort to military children and their families.

I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to the pressure to write faster than was comfortable for them or the story.