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Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best,...

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...

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I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so much ...

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Kathleen NorrisAmazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfo...

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When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn...

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You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's no...

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When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on...

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She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she se...

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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighten...

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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...

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All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool ...

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He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even t...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a ...

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Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you...

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The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,...

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We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...

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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...

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Maya AngelouAll God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the wind...

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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...

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Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But i...

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there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who p...

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The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s ...

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I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and ...

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The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real m...

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I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that ...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...

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God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me...

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It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody'...

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I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to cons...

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Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to...

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Ray BradburyA Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himsel...

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Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451

All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly i...

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The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand ...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorro...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Needs? I guess that is what bothers so many folks. They keep expanding their needs until they are de...

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Richard ProennekeOne Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient f...

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Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take ...

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There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support an...

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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading yo...

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[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong...

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The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was...

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The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or ...

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Susan CooperKing of Shadows

So what should we do with our last few days?”“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest...

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Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be w...

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Sylvia PlathThe Journals of Sylvia Plath

Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One...

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Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'c...

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Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium Eater

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testim...

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Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threaten...

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Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and ...

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Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life ...

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It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment ...

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... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better st...

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Art is to console those who are broken by life.

The gruff murmur, irregularly broken by the taking out of pipes and the putting in of pipes which ha...

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and ...

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms the...

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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, whil...

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William CowperThe Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray b...

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But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grie...

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comforta...

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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when yo...

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, be...

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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be h...

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... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

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Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Affair at Styles

She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generou...

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Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout ...

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Doing this was likewading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. ...

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It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come...

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The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love ...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and...

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

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a ...

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When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you ...

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We kept on cooking and walking the dog, taking the kids to the park, cleaning the kitchen, and letti...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for he...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish ...

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