Comfort Quotes - Page 3

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

I think everyone is a case-by-case basis. Whatever the circumstances are that come with any individual, they exist and you have to make a determination as to what your comfort level is with that person and the characteristics that they bring.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

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

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why