Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. — Louis Nizer
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love. — Amy Carmichael
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul. — Therese of Lisieux
Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. — Helen Steiner Rice
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life. — George D. Prentice
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone. — Moroccan Proverbs
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless. — Mother Theresa
Short Words Of Comfort Quotes
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. — Aeschylus
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. — Christopher Marlowe
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering. — Townes Van Zandt
Kind words are worth much and they cost little. — Proverbs
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue. — Sayings
Words Of Comfort Image Quotes
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Comforting Words Quotes
There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Chief Seattle
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person. — Mas Oyama
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer. — Blaise Pascal
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him. — Kate DiCamillo
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything. — Ziggy Marley
The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone. — Michael Hyatt
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace. — Leo Hindery
Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and continue moving forward. — T. Harv Eker
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. — Thornton Wilder
You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word. — Bill Courtney
Comfort And Hope Quotes
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. — Michael Jackson
The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin. — Dwight L. Moody
A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads! — Catherine Booth
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope. — Herbert Hoover
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope. — Annette Funicello
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help. — Mohamed Al-Fayed
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion? — Stephen Jay Gould
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. — Lydia Maria Child
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon
Words Of Encouragement Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies. — Paulo Coelho
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. — John Lennon
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. — Bill Hybels
Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. — Amelia Earhart
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive. — Krystal
The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part. — Tom Petty
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining. — Abraham Lincoln
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. — Kevin Myers
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes. — Eckhart Tolle
Encouraging Words Quotes
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop — Paulo Coelho
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them. — Arthur C. Clarke
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him — Frances Ridley Havergal
A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water. — Rudolf Dreikurs
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick
How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing. — S. Truett Cathy
Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. — Gary Allan
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff. — Judi Dench
Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. — Hugh B. Brown
Words Of Hope Quotes
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod
If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants. — Mas Oyama
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. — Yasmin Mogahed
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. — Emil Brunner
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. — Alice Waters
We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace. — Lucille Clifton
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future. — David Wilkerson
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. — Frank R. Wolf
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world. — Fred Rogers
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. — George Eliot
For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict. — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head. — Paul Auster
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself. — Brian Andreas
So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort. — Florence Littauer
Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red— His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide. — John Kendrick Bangs
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. — George Eliot
Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father. — Abraham Verghese
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. — Joyce Brothers
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way. — G. H. Hardy
The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty. — Wilfred Grenfell
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. — Blaise Pascal
Even if is a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new, and make a difference in your life, and likely in others' lives as well... Yes is what keeps us all young. Yes is a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often. — Eric Schmidt
We all now have to decide whether we`re comfortable using this word, weather fascism is too over the top to use in this context of our politics right now in our country or whether it helps because it`s accurate, to basically describe this as America`s Sir Oswald Mosley moment. — Rachel Maddow
Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement. — Starhawk
Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one. — Charles Dickens
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! — Robert Browning
The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. — John Adams
I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery. — Tim Gunn
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. — Kate DiCamillo
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken. — Hannah Whitall Smith
You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then. — Alexander Whyte
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. — George Saunders
There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue. — Suzanne Collins
Not only is it mind-blowing that God would consider me - us - worthy of his love, but it's flat-out incomprehensible that God would give us his wisdom, compassion, guidance, and comfort by giving us his Word. It's totally humbling and such an honor. Thank you Lord! — Jennifer Rothschild
You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means. — Stephen Levine
If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God. — David Jeremiah
Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you. If you speak the truth and someone gets mad at you, don't be upset, but take comfort in the words of the Lord: Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of truth, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:10). — Gennadius of Constantinople
You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words! — Christian Louboutin
Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words. — Julian Whitaker
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome. — Jacqueline Carey
Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend. — Grace Noll Crowell
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