Quotes About Comfort

You know, it was a revelation to me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is it written that I must be comfortable. I always thought if I felt nervous or anxious or unhappy I had to do something about it. But I learned that's not true. Bad feelings won't kill me. Alcohol will kill me, but my feelings won't.

Now I know what development means: air-conditioning. With air-conditioning, we can have civilization, which exists only in temperate climates.

Reality doesn't owe us comfort.

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Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets.

Cats don't forget. Cats know when they are needed and loved. These two would be better medicine for Minnie than anything that came out of a pill bottle.

No matter where you are or what you're doing throughout the day, your heart should always be at home.

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

grief is not like clinical depression, schizophrenia, or anxiety, which can be diagnosed and treated. The grieving need someone to say "I see you, I hear you, I understand you are hurting and you can tell me more.

If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

Your tummy, soft as warm dough. I knead and knead, then bake it with a nap.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather.