Quotes About Comfort

I felt more at home in Cambridge than I ever had in Dillon.

If I've learned anything in nearly 12 years now of dragging heavy things around cold places, it is that true, real inspiration and growth only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what's comfortable and familiar and stepping out into the unknown… I certainly would implore you to open the door just a little bit and take a look at what's outside.

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you

For the first time in forever, he'll wake up to a new beagle's bark every motning, with a feeling that the world is all right and everyone he cares about is safe and sound

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

If I came to the bed where you lay sick and in fever, I would not come with little tight-fisted flowers But with the white heron's plume that lay in the forest Till it was cooler than sleep.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury -- or at least comfort -- so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

The scripture comes gently, as a mother comes to her child, so that we who can scarcely crawl on the ground are not left alone in our weakness." (Augustine)

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow, and wise is the counsel of those who love us.

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Books are companions even if you don't open them.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Here Skugg lies snugAs a bug in a rug.

He that's secure is not safe.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect.

A house without woman and firelight, is like a Body without soul or sprite.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

From my example, a great part of them left their muddling breakfast of beer, and bread, and cheese, finding they could with me be supplied from a neighboring house with a large porringer of hot water-gruel, sprinkled with pepper, crumbed with bread, and a bit of butter in it, for the price of a pint of beer, viz., three half-pence. This was a more comfortable as well as cheaper breakfast, and keep their heads clearer.