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• When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and comfort in my soul. The angels do this not by bringing me answers and intricate theories, but by bringing me creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.

  Terry Taylor

  Inspiring, Angel, Heart

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• We all have angels guiding us...They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands...What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks.

  Sophy Burnham

  Angel, Hands, Giving

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• Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Jesus, Long, Soul

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• We never had it so good: Every person alive today derives great benefit from comforts and pleasures that were not available in the past. All of the latest technological advances serve us to a remarkable degree. For all this we should be full of appreciation and gratitude.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Past

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• Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.103, WaterBrook

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• Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

  A. Edward Newton

  Book, Reading, Soul

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• What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.

  Bill McKibben

  Talking, Long, Levels

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• There are going to be tears in Heaven, because God is going to have to wipe them away. No doubt many of us will cry when we first arrive there and realize just how much our many mistakes have cost and lost. But God will wipe away all these tears, and comfort and encourage us and inspire us for the future, so we can forget the past. There will be tears, but thank God He will wipe them away with His joy. Then there will be no more tears and no more years, only a happy eternity!

  David Berg

  Mistake, Past, Years

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• Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Future, Decision, Joy

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• What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

  George Santayana

  Hands, Environmental, Age

  George Santayana (1906). “Sonnets and Other Verses”

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• The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat; cars are there to overcome distances. Culture is the exception. Music, art, and all of the different cultural expressions are not going in that direction. They're not about comfort; they're about understanding each other.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Art, Distance, Rain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The beauty behind killing someone who no one thinks you're willing to kill is, of course, that you throw people out of their comfort zone. And that's good because you want people to be on the edge of their seats.

  Michael Loceff

  Thinking, Killing Someone, People

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

  Seneca the Younger

  Crowds, Companionship, Kind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5, 1922.

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• For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Black And White, Possession

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Daniel Falk, Friedrich von Müller (1833). “Characteristics of Goethe: From the German of Falk, Von Müller, &c., with Notes, Original and Translated, Illustrative of German Literature”, p.246

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• I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Tombstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

  Saadi

  Wise, Men, Riches

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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• Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Play, Echoes

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters. Second appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisoniana. General index”, p.535

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• The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Misery

  "Epistles". VI. 3,

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• These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Home, Night

  "Oratio Pro Licinio Archia", VII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 757,

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• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Order, Nymphs

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• Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sea, Long, Giving

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.40, Lackington, Allen

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• It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Past, Favour

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.118, MIT Press

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• For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

  Robert Browning

  Might, Succeed, Failing

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

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• The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, High Anxiety, Zone

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• No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

  Henry Fielding

  Loss, Evil, Anxiety

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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