Comforting Quotes

• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Since You Ask Me".

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• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

  Princess Diana

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Old Habits

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.216, Hay House, Inc

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• I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

  Ani DiFranco

  Strength, Individual Differences, Diversity

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• In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wisdom, Thinking, Government

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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• There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

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• Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

  Michael Patrick King

  Change, Heart, Cities

  Sex and the City, www.satctranscripts.com. 1998–2004.

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• All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Regret

  The Dalai Lama (2008). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World”, p.71, Parallax Press

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• Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time. It's a mantra conveniently invoked when it is proposed that government do something the faithful don't like, and just as conveniently ignored whenever they want government to do something for them.

  Edward S. Herman

  Reality, Government, Faithful

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• Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  Maxims and Reflections (1819)

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Things In Life, Able

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• It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

  Tom Wolfe

  Funny, Leadership, Believe

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• The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

  Aesop

  Happiness, You Make Me Happy, Unhappy

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• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  Felix Adler

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Felix Adler's Founding Address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, aeu.org. May 15, 1876.

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• Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

  Alice Walker

  Sister, Inspiring, Sibling

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• God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.

  Dorothee Solle

  God, Lonely, Healing

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