Comfort Quotes - Page 30

• I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

  Missi Pyle

  Character, People, Littles

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• The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

  John Prescott

  Pleasure, Break, Access

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  Hal Sparks

  Airplane, Laughing, Guarantees

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• While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Civilization

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• I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

  Dominic West

  Mother, Dad, Thinking

  "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Intervie with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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• Ice cream is my comfort food.

  Jessie Ware

  Ice Cream, Ice, Comfort Food

  "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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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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• Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Encouragement, Inspiration

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• There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Men, Faithful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Evil

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• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  Ed Markey

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

  Joe Wright

  Ideas, Comfort Zone, Zone

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• At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Philosophy, Opposites, And Love

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• Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Heart, Names

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• The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

  Amelia Bloomer

  Want, Costumes, Failing

  Amelia Bloomer (1975). “Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer”

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• As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?

  Laurie Helgoe

  Responsibility, Worst Enemy, Play

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• When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

  Matthew Parris

  War, Exercise, White

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• We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful...
  The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one

  John Lachs

  Dream, Years, Land

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• I'm also all about comfort. Just hanging out and wearing jeans or sweats.

  Sung-Hi Lee

  Jeans, Sweat, Hanging Out

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• All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Understanding, Delight

  "Imitation of Christ". Book by Thomas a Kempis, Book II, Chapter I,

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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