True friends never turn you away when all you need is someone to talk to. Ever. It’s not the only thing that helps, but it’s the only thing that works. Real friends never walk away,...

It was a huge comfort to have a person who’d keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

Typical of Peter, [he] didn’t quit on the play. It’s a comfort to see number 58 [going] after the passer.

Don’t pretend to comfort me, my friend. I might also pretend to not let you down.

The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.

A disciple does not ask, “How much can I keep?” but, “How much more can I give?” Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it’s time to raise it again.

God’s forgot that ever I lived… He’s forgot…and He never cared, nohow….”He smoothed her brown, rough-palmed hand; he held her hands to keep her from jerking herself away from his admonishing: “Oh, ’tis not true,...

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man’s best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply...

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God’s goal of the impossible.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Some days are hard on us. Life gets serious and shit sucks. But you’re my favorite distraction, attraction and human being. And, I can’t wait to love you more tomorrow.

The fact that other people are worse off than us is certainly cold comfort for those in Germany who have to count every cent.

God and the Angels can and want to assist you with all aspects of your life. Your happiness and life is their primary mission.

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

Allow yourself to let go, surrender, and breathe in the beautiful world that is waiting for you just outside of your comfort zone.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and...

Taylor, listen to me. I could tell you that it’s okay. That she wasn’t a wonderful person, or I didn’t love her. I could tell you that she’s happier now, and her life would’ve been...

The problem for us is the pace of technology. What was once a creature comfort is now an essential. And we find that customers are passionate on both sides of the issue.

I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that opened and closed at the stroking of a finger….And once, when I startled...

A meow massages the heart.

For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia’s armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments.

Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they...

Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?

It is only recently that India fell under the impact of alien cultures which highlighted material comfort, physical luxury, sensual liberty, and exterior display; and that Indians have trodden the wrong path of exploitation and...

The prefect evening…lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy…Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet...

I’m a peasantI’m the muzhikA pest you’re destined to play the musicAnd yes it’s pleasant to say it’s beauty I’mIndebted to rest respecting it truly

Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could be back in time to light the candles and set the...

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. … Male strength — the desire to be cradled again? … I’d love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I’d start...

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can’t get at you.

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

It was the best night in he had had in a long time, maybe ever. Finally, as he told her goodbye, he knew he had some things to take care of when he got back...

While these data are of little comfort to any senior who has experienced a problem, they do put the scope of the issue in perspective. Our community’s job is to work collaboratively with beneficiaries, pharmacies,...

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

Anxiously you ask, ‘Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?’ The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the...

You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when the mind is comfortable. There is no change in what is...

Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.

I close my eyes. I don’t expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends,...

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome food all contribute to the growing body/mind. And when these basic conditions are...

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It’s a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white, and looking at it, instead...

People are taking some comfort in results and a feeling that the economy is getting better, but there’s still some caution. We need to see more evidence of a sustainable recovery. We need companies to...

from the prose poem “The Universe Thrums on regardless” in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

A blanket that has arms to hold you when you are sad, now that’s what I call a comforter.

While Republicans may have lost the past two elections for governor, they can take comfort from the fact that they currently lead Virginia’s love parade.

Things work out the way they’re supposed to.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.