Comforts Quotes

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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon
People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't… — Katherine Boo
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits. — Robert Southey
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.… — Dalai Lama
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. — Robert Browning
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a… — Bernard de Mandeville
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness.… — Dalai Lama
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those… — Menno Simons
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In… — Dalai Lama
Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;… — John Flavel
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me… — Vivien Leigh
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. — Abraham Lincoln
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves. — Ivan Panin
The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts… — William Cowper
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and… — Pope Paul VI

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