Comfort proverbs

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

- Nicole Krauss99

◆ Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

- Edith Sitwell99

◆ Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

- James Herriot99

◆ Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

- Cassandra Clare99

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

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ 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 if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

- Leonardo da Vinci99

◆ I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

- James Baldwin99

◆ She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

- Betty Smith99

◆ She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

- Cecelia Ahern99

◆ But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

- A.A. Milne99

◆ There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

- David Levithan99

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

- Maya Angelou99

◆ Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that's OK.

- Katie Couric99

◆ Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

- Jane Austen99