Settling For Comfort Quotes

1. "I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters."
Author: A.B. Shepherd

2. "This is not written for the young or the light of heart, not for the tranquil species of men whose souls are content with the simple pleasures of family, church, or profession. Rather, I write to those beings like myself whose existence is compounded by a lurid intermingling of the dark and thelight; who can judge rationally and think with reason, yet who feel too keenly and churn with too great a passion; who have an incessant longing for happiness and yet areshadowed by a deep and persistent melancholy—those who grasp gratification where they may, but find no lasting comfort for the soul."
Author: B.E. Scully

3. "When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admireres, everything to fill them. When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffin-lid, and no friend in sickness or death but the hospital nurse, set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us? Pity us, lady--pity us for having only one feeling of the woman left, and for having that turned, by a heavy judgment, from a comfort and a pride, into a new means of violence and suffering."
Author: Charles Dickens

4. "Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words."
Author: Clare Vanderpool

5. "If you really stop and think about it, your comfort zone probably isn't all that comfortable."
Author: Eleanor Brownn

6. "It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn't call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace."
Author: Francis Chan

7. "I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy."
Author: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

8. "My problem was not with comfort or monetary wealth. My problem was with a way of life in which those who have more than they need are envied or extolled, while those who are materially poor are scorned or forgotten."
Author: John Robbins

9. "Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it."
Author: Kyra Davis

10. "Make life about more than just you. Take the world around you and transform it for the sake of others. Do a good deed for your neighbor; smile at strangers; volunteer for a bigger purpose and don't except anything in return. The first step of redemption is digging yourself out of the hole you dug around yourself and dedicating your time to others. When the world stops revolving around your comfort zone and draws in the needs of others, you may quickly break the chains that hold you down from reaching your ultimate goal."
Author: Leigh Hershkovich

11. "The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle."
Author: Libba Bray

12. "Frantically, he scans the room, settling on the closet. Brayden sighs, 'Seriously, dude? Must we live the cliche?'"
Author: Lynn Kelling

13. "That was really good driving," Maddy told her."Yeah, thanks.""Here, baby. Here." Pilar turned her, held her when the shakes came. And, holding her, reachedout for Maddy. "Here, baby," she said again. Maddy pressed herself into that circle of comfort and letthe tears come."
Author: Nora Roberts

14. "That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals."
Author: Orison Swett Marden

15. "When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each other's hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection. - Peter Yarrow"
Author: Peter Yarrow

16. "I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them."
Author: Shinzo Abe

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