Best Comforting Thoughts
317 Comforting quotes by 269 unique authors
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I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty…
— Jared Leto
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I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh,…
— Marissa Mayer
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A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very…
— Alan Moore
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Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you,…
— Brad Pitt
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Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
— Jane Smiley
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
— Alice Walker
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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…
— Marianne Williamson
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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…
— Tom Wolfe
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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
— Fareed Zakaria
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Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked…
— Regina Brett
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Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy…
— Regina Brett
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The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.
— Niecy Nash
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
— Maya Angelou
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Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the…
— John Hodgman
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It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this…
— John Kennedy Toole
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Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I…
— Helen Keller
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How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to…
— Libba Bray
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost…
— Bertrand Russell
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One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it.…
— Charles Frazier
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There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.
— Rohinton Mistry
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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…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
— Robert Frost
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