Comfort

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

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(145 votes)   No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]

Clare Boothe Luce
1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer

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(114 votes)   Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(87 votes)   To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

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(81 votes)   Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away…

Dinah Mulock

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