Quotes About Comfort

Security' takes many forms. There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there's the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life – of surplus and luxury, of living like gods – we had to go and tamper with that harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life - of surplus and luxury, or living like gods - we had to go and tamper with hat harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Hai bisogno di uno con una mano grande così. [...] Uno che se ne sta con la mano alzata, forte, ferma, come la statua della Libertà, ma senza quel cono gelato. Solo con la mano aperta, in alto e allora tu... [...] tu da lontano, da qualsiasi punto della terra, vedrai quella mano e saprai che lì potrai posarti e riposare.

Then a calm fell upon him. The gushing began from all sorts of places, all over his body. He heard pleasurable little giggles on the outer edges of his mind, in the dark creases behind his thoughts. He felt good, better than he'd felt in years. As if he were inside a huge embrace. And he felt as if he had finally reached the right place, his home, his motherland.

Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

For the elite, living comfortably in their gilded ghettos, the world must indeed seem a better place.

This casual neglect, a lack of care and worry, helped him feel easy in this quiet and leisurely part of the city.

All the annoying stuff people spout about your loved ones being in a better place, or not being in pain is just words they say to make themselves feel better.

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

Since a president can easily slide into a comfort zone of sycophants, it can't hurt him to see a few demonstrators with rude T-shirts injecting a small dose of irreverence into a triumphant appearance. In the age of stage-managed events for television, however, White House aides don't like it.

Your pain will not always be like this," I told her. "It will change." This is a message that the grieving need to hear, and in the moment of saying it, I often observe a shift. The person looks up at me and says, "It will?" And he or she suddenly becomes lighter.

bâton de compassion

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.