Quotes of Comforting - somelinesforyou

“ My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: "This, too, shall pass.". ”

- Ann Landers

“ Don't pray for yourself; this is my teaching. Pray for your mission; pray for others; pray so that your prayer can reach God as a comforting word. ”

- Sun Myung Moon

“ Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster! ”

- Jay Leno

“ It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. ”

- Helen Keller

“ 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

“ If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. ”

- Noam Chomsky

“ How do you know something's a principle till it gives you some trouble, hunh? If you won't put yourself to some trouble about it, it's not a principle, it's just a comforting slogan. ”

- John Barnes

“ Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him. ”

- Clark Moustakas

“ There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on. ”

- Dr. Megan Reik

“ Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. ”

- Unknown

“ Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs. ”

- Unknown

“ Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters? ”

- Alice Walker

“ Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended. ”

- Unknown

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

- Princess Diana

“ In a painting I want to say something comforting. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him. ”

- Clark Mousakas

“ Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. ”

- General Colin Powell

“ Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. ”

- Woody Allen

“ I have discovered that when we least care to admit it, we feel more confused than thankful, more caught than called, more worried than gracious. In humble moments when we can no longer gloss over the roughness of life, gratitude has a way of pushing out the real soreness of feeling cheated or inadequate to the rugged realities of the world… ”

- Patrick J. Malone S.J.

“ 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 human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ I'm a ridiculous sci-fi fan. In fact, I admit it freely; my manager is horrified. I just recently bought seasons two through five of Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD. And I've watched all the episodes, half on the plane and a few of them as I was going to sleep last night… ”

- Emma Caulfield

“ Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary, with a conviction that a sudden, arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void, produce a loss. ”

- Jenny Heynrichs

“ 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… ”

- Kenneth Kaunda
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