Comfort Quotes

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

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

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible "” incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

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

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one's marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can't afford to do anyway are vulgar.

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.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichﾃδｩs, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother