Comfort Quotes - Page 9

• For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Sacrifice, Vices

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Mean, Conceited

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

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• And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Christmas, Girl, Morning

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.305, e-artnow

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• If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Jesus, Peace, Lying

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Inspirational, Life, Jobs

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• Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Confidence, People, Trying

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• The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.

  William Saroyan

  Running, Loneliness, Kids

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Wise, Silence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.106

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• Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.

  Humphry Davy

  Beautiful, Nature, Morning

  Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence”, p.64

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• The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

  Peter Eisenman

  Comforting, Architecture, Remember

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• Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wine, Age, Philosopher

  Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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• Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.

  Andrew Boorde

  Heart, Wine, Men

  Andrew Boorde (1936). “The wisdom of Andrew Boorde”

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• I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

  John Selden

  Jesus, Pain, Taken

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• He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

  Heber J. Grant

  Men, Names, Heaven

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• Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Healthy Habits, Sole

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• We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.

  Gustav Mahler

  Differences, Giving, Perfect

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Luxury, Progress

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Book

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• Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in....I love you

  Steven Strait

  Sweet, Love You, Love Is

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• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  True Friend, Offering, Support

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1996). “Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship”, Rutledge Hill Press

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• Drink in the beauty of friendship. In this world of constant change, we need the comfort of friendship more than ever before.

  Susan Jeffers

  Friendship, Needs, World

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• I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

  Nancy Reagan

  Friendship, Perspective, Doe

  "Winning with People: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time". Book by John C. Maxwell, 2005.

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• It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Jesus, Lying

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• Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

  Og Mandino

  Knowing, Grace, Steps

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• The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

  Clarence Darrow

  Humans, Can Do, Comfortable

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