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Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.Criss Jami
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By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, far beyond thought, I live from these ideas, if ideas is what they are. They are sensations that transform into ideas because I must use words. Even just using them mentally. The primary thought thinks with words. .Clarice Lispector
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We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.Sanober Khan
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Anna thought about the men outside on the gallery. She was glad they were there; finding them smoking and talking quietly had been comforting, it was what men did in the evenings when the work was done. Of course, the work was not done, and she doubted that it ever would be. It would go on and on, even after the house was emptied of strangers, long after the wildflowers had blossomed a hundred times on their graves. .Howard Bahr
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Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.Donna Lynn Hope
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Soeur Marie Emelie"Soeur Marie Emelieis little and very old:her eyes are onyx, and her cheeks vermilion, her apron wide and kindand cobalt blue. She comfortsgenerations and generationsof children, who are "new"at the convent school. When they are eight, they are already up to her shoulder, they grow up and go into the world, she remains, forever, always incredibly old, but incredibly never older.. She has an affinity with the hens, When a hen dies, she sits down on a bench and cries, she is the only grown-up, whose tears are not frightening tears. Children can weep without shame, at her side.. Soeur Marie Emelie..her apron as wide and kindas skies on a summer dayand as clean and blue.Caryll Houselander
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When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of comforting words may counter the withering twilight and the frostiness of darkness. ("All the words he always wanted to tell her.")Erik Pevernagie
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When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.Donna Tartt
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She looked so disappointed, so grieved and desperate that Clem longed to comfort her, only he couldn't think of thing to say that she hadn't heard a hundred times from Dad and Dr. Snow and Mrs. Mack: how things would get better in time, though no one knew how much time, and that life might be a little better for her and Jess once school began again.Judith Clarke
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...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.Beth Lewis
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There is no record in Scripture that an angel visited John’s cell to explain the meaning of his persecution. This great, godly man who was the designated forerunner to Jesus went through the same confusing experiences as we. It is comforting to know that John responded in a very human way. He sent a secret message to Jesus from his prison cell, asking “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:3). Have you ever felt like asking that question? .James C. Dobson
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My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.Banana Yoshimoto
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Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la. Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength.“ I’m so glad you’re here, ” I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. “I know everything’s fineif you’re here.” I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn’t too sure of anything anymore. .James Patterson
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The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process.Sanober Khan
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Their locked hands offered a stark reminder of how many scars lingered … shards of war and distressing anguish forever branded them. Yet in this endearing moment of comfort, their adversity became skinspeak between survivors phoenixing from the ashes of their perilous journey–their burning eagerness for survival overcoming the forces that once tried to stifle their light.Becca Vry
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May the nights always be aglowwith the bliss of the daywith unharmed hands and feetand kissed cheeks.Sanober Khan
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Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.Gina Greenlee
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Hey, ' he said, touching my waist. 'Hey. It's okay.' I nodded and wiped my face with the back of my hand. 'He sucks.' I nodded again. 'I'll write you an epilogue, ' Gus said. That made me cry harder. 'I will, ' he said. 'I will. Better than any sh*t that drunk could write. His brain is Swiss cheese. He doesn't even remember writing the book. I can write ten times the story that guy can. There will be blood and guts and sacrifice. An Imperial Affliction meets The Prince of Dawn. You'll love it.' I kept nodding, faking a smile, and then he hugged me, his strong arms pulling me into his muscular chest, and I sogged up his polo shirt a little but then recovered enough to speak.John Green
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He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.Hanya Yanagihara