Quotes About Comfort

Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...

Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us uneasy, and they had also always given us something to talk about when we were stressed or anxious.

1. Ask: "Do you want to talk about how you're feeling?" 2. Don't ask if there's anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it's not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough.

But mostly, when I look back, what I remember is not Mom rushing about; it's Mom sitting quietly in the center of the house, in the living room, under the swirling colors of a Paul Jenkins painting; there would be a fire in the fireplace and a throw over her lap, her hands sticking out to hold a book. And we all wanted to be there with her and Dad, reading quietly too.

I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her.

3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough.

And when people would say to Mom, "I'll include you in my prayers," it gave her great solace. It wasn't a platitude for her—when she knew people were praying for her, it was something concrete and immense.

Overal door liefderijk water omhuld te zijn, nergens pijn of weerstand meer ontmoeten, is nog heerlijker dan slapen.

La falta de comodidades es fundamental para que el hombre se sienta bien consigo mismo

They say familiarity breeds contempt. This may or may not be true, but it is clear that familiarity breeds comfort: do something scary often enough, and it not only ceases to be scary, it becomes automatic.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Most of us are as comfortable with our misbeliefs as we are with an old pair of house slippers: well-worn, familiar, and always waiting for us, despite the fact that they have out-lived their usefulness.

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

what Jesus is saying is: 'I am setting you a hard task, and I am sending you out on a very difficult engagement. But I am going to send you someone, the parakl?tos, who will guide you as to what to do and enable you to do it.

I'll shade him from the heat till he can bearTo lean in joy upon our Father's knee;And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,And be like him and he will then love me.

Plans are immensely reassuring to most people, not just because they contain information but because they exist.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

Sing, for it may be that your thoughts have plucked Some medicable herb to make our grief Less bitter.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

Ye who, borne about in chariots and sedans know no fatigue but that of idleness.