Quotes About Comfort

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our own making, a place of safety, exploration, comfort, and love.

Robert Frost wrote, home is "Something you somehow haven't to deserve.

My home is a place of unconditional belonging, which is part of its pleasure, part of its pain—as Robert Frost wrote, home is "Something you somehow haven't to deserve.

Instead of being sources of stress, my home and my office are places of comfort and energy.

An unmade bed is a common broken window, which is why "Make the bed" is one of the most popular happiness-project resolutions, and in fact, as Charles Duhigg points out in his fascinating book The Power of Habit, the habit of bed making is correlated with a sense of greater well-being and higher productivity.

It had occurred to me that comfort was only a disguise for discomfort; reference points, a disguise for what will always change.

Solace doesn't arrive on a silver platter

Bæir á borð við Sjöundá. Við getum ekki látið það komast upp í vana, að því fólki, sem á einhvern hátt er til óþæginda, sé lógað heima.

Qué mejor cosa que estarse por la noche al amor de la lumbre con un libro, mientras el viento pega en los cristales, y arde la lámpara...?

What could be better than to sit besides the fire with a book and a glowing lamp while the wind beats outside the windows...

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?

This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.

Qué cosa mejor, en efecto, que estar en casa por la noche con un libro junto al fuego, mientras el viento bate los vidrios y la lámpara se consume!

Cosa c'è di meglio, in realtà, che starsene la sera accanto al fuoco con un bel libro in mano, mentre il vento sbatte contro le persiane e arde il lume della lampada?

Y entonces, recordando el comportamiento de sus maestros cuando se hallaban junto al lecho de un herido, comenzó a reconfortar al paciente con toda clase de buenas palabras, caricias quirúrgicas que son como el aceite con que se engrasan los bisturíes.

Astea nu m? privesc pe mine; ?i nu vreau s? te descarci pe mine de necazurile dumitale.

YaÅŸlanmak, size yaÅŸam katan, sizi seven, sizi okÅŸayan, size hoÅŸ sözler söyleyip kalbinizi ?s?tan ve sizi rahatlatan insanlarla güzeldir.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

His strong, gentle, confident voice resonated across the nation with an eloquence that brought comfort and resilience to a nation caught up in a storm and reassured us that we could lick any problem," Reagan recalled. "I will never forget him for that.

There is nothing so merciless as mankind. How can we justify ourselves, especially to the dumb animals around us? But the first days are always the worst, and there is much comfort in the thought that time effaces everything, crime and sorrow no less than love.

did all in his power to render his guests comfortable; the rich and the great were not invited.

This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash.