Reassuring Quotes - Page 6

• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Fun, Language, Dictionary

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• To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

  Jean Kerr

  Baby, Party, Alive

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

  Joan Osborne

  Spiritual, Connected

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• It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

  Claire Danes

  Self, People, Judging

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

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• It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

  America Ferrera

  Triumph, World, Pretty Picture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Nature, Real

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.287

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• It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.

  Thom Yorke

  Feelings, Trying, Way

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. August 16, 2006.

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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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• Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Life, Spiritual, Heaven

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.

  Keren Ann

  Art, Ideas, Knowing

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• For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

  Lynda Barry

  Color, Add, Horror

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• Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doors, Hopeful, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.27, Penguin

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• "I liked the feeling of love," [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. "I wish we still had that," he whispered. "Of course," he added quickly, "I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." [...] "Still," he said slowly, almost to himself, "I did like the light they made. And the warmth."

  Lois Lowry

  Wall, Light, Feelings

  "The Giver". Book by Lois Lowry, 1993.

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• Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Fun, Liars, Character

  "Interview with History". Book by Oriana Fallaci, 1974.

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• The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Political, Growing, Influence

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The secret to thriving is the knowledge that we are never simply victims of our bodies. It’s very reassuring to know that we all have within us the ability to heal from anything and go on to live joy-filled lives.

  Christiane Northrup

  Joy, Secret, Goes On

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• In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.

  Joan Lunden

  Perspective, World, Given

  Joan Lunden (2001). “Wake-up calls”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  Carl Sagan

  Goal, Custodians, Purpose

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Self, Soul, Stressed

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• Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

  Jacques Ellul

  Faith, People, Forever

  Jacques Ellul (2012). “Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World”, p.112, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

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  Ram Dass

  Identity, Juicy, Costumes

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.217, Harmony

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• When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

  Adam Young

  Eye, Boys, People

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• There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

  David Rakoff

  Sadness, Cleansing, Vicarious

  David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.198, Anchor

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