Comforting Quotes - Page 14

• Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Animal, Air

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• Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Wish, Truth Is, Uncomfortable

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 05, 2010

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• It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.

  Wayne Coyne

  Loss, Black, Magazines

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• [David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Humanity, Seems

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• No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

  Beth Moore

  Missing, Matter, Habitual

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.162, B&H Publishing Group

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• Should there be anyone who feels he is too weak to do better because of that greatest of fears, the fear of failure, there is no more comforting assurance to be had than the words of the Lord: 'My Grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them' (Ether 12:27)

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Humble, Men

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• The notion that "this too shall pass" is comforting, both in knowing that whatever pain I'm in will change into something else and allowing myself to experience the pain, not trying to blunt it or brush it aside. It's important to feel and to be connected to your emotions, whichever way they play out.

  Patrick Fabian

  Pain, Play, Knowing

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Inspirational, Exercise, Things In Life

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• Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, Long, Cooking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Sep 06, 2016

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• Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, Struggle, Practice

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• The rooms that are lived in are the ones we find most comforting.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  House, Rooms, Cleaning

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• I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Hope, Science, Tradition

  Stephen Jay Gould (1987). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.401, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

  Mark Twain

  Hands, Trying, Sound

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2826, GENERAL PRESS

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• I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Dad, Father

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• To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Eye, Reality, Views

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Power, Elephants, Issues

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge.
  We like to fool ourselves.

  Russ Roberts

  Self, Deception, Fool

  Russ Roberts (2014). “How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness”, p.31, Penguin

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• It might be comforting to assume that intolerance is an aberration within Islam but discrimination against Christians or any other non-Muslim is in fact integral to orthodox Muslim teaching, and the more profound issue to the serious-minded is not the existence of sectarianism but its extent.

  Michael Coren

  Christian, Teaching, Issues

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• Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

  T. H. White

  Children, Degradation, Habit

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.12, University of Texas Press

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• I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Ideas, Wire

  Zane Grey, Max Brand, Owen Wister, James Fenimore Cooper, B. M. Bower (2017). “60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…”, p.4057, e-artnow

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• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  Stella Benson

  Real, Voice, Laughing

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition

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• Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

  Loraine Boettner

  Love, Faith, God

  Loraine Boettner (2017). “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

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