Quotes About Comfort

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Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul "in some positive way".

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

in that childhood room for whose warmth and safety we search all the rest of our lives and never find again.

What you've made here is a complete neighborhood." Pauline mused. "You might live in it without ever needing to leave it for anything, couldn't you?

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.

This was not a room that had been decorated. Rather it had accumulated over time around someone with a yen for comfort and a wicked sense of color.

I wake up the next morning to find Indigo on the bed with me, her head resting on my hip. "Why didn't you stay on the floor?" I ask. "I'm not used to sleeping on my own," she says. "Do the scratchy thing.

Good at his job, I guessed, but probably not at ease with things that fall outside his comfort zone. He was going to love us.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

Remembering can be a hard thing on a man," he suggested. "I wear life like an old pair of shoes that's easy on my feet.

What matters is that she becomes an engaged lifelong learner and an adaptable thinker who can thrive in any environment and is comfortable dealing with other cultures.

And the whole town just stood there crying, Looking at the darkness, For something wholesome and good

what could be more obvious than the fact that they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering, a kind of neuropathy that came from too much ease, too much sugar, a kind of existential gout?

The worst is over. I am with you," I quoted, "and I know how it is.

The less you know, the more soundly you sleep.

We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.

Do you know what the luckiest thing is?' 'No.' 'It is to be at home everywhere.

It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

also made me feel at home.

Our two dogs, Scamper (an ancient beagle-basset) and Tinker (a small, friendly dog of indeterminate breed), provided some diversion.

but the place had a familiar feel.

I took slight comfort from the fact that he hadn't said we had gone over the edge of our lawful power.