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• To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

  Phillip Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Angel, Needs

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• When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

  Ken Blanchard

  Encouragement, People, Giving

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• If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

  Scott Lynch

  Pain, Dull, Trouble

  Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.122, Spectra

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• Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

  Lauren Oliver

  Perfection, Promise

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Important

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.38, Atlântico Press

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• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.

  Zaha Hadid

  Girl, Guy, Mind

  "At last, it's Zaha Hadid's time to shine" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2012.

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• One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

  Bob Hoskins

  I Love You, Simple, Men

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• She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mind, Wave, Uncertainty

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.16, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

  John Hall Wheelock

  Needs, States, Deals

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• The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Winter, Color, Soup

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• Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

  Mary McGrory

  Friendship, Dog, Animal

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• My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

  Rihanna

  Tattoo, Crazy, Lessons

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• The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

  Walter Wink

  Heart, Understanding, Conflict

  Walter Wink (2010). “The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium”, p.121, Harmony

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• At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Commitment, Technology, Issues

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.148, Macmillan

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• But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.
  Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

  Simon Van Booy

  Imperfection, Shadow, Trying

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.11, Oneworld Publications

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• Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Forgiveness, Journey, Needs

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• What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Fun, Eye

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• The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

  Ira Glass

  People, Culture, Miserable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

  Truman Capote

  Mirrors, Secret, Identity

  Truman Capote (1955). “Other voices, other rooms”, Modern Library

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• Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

  Tom Shales

  Drama, Long, People

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• One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it’s all true that they’re willing to go the ultimate mile?

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, People, Atheism

  "A Double Take on Early Christianity". Interview with Mike Aquilina, touchstonemag.com. January 2000.

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• All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

  Ian Mcewan

  His Love, Lifetime, Certainty

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• Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.

  Richard Bach

  Sight, Views, Humanity

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.200, Dell

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