Seeking Comfort Quotes

“...that yearning inside you that seeks for fulfillment - does it still burn?...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“You keep me here. You can't live in a world where you don't know where and what I am doing. We inside each others souls.”
― Chimnese Davids, My Unrequited Love Letters

“Dare to ask questions. There are answers to any question.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Start and end your day with God.
Seek His presence and blessing daily.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral grave site. I don't want to go there. When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death. It was sunny, and I liked the pine tree that stood bent but tall, but remaining a member of this family even in death would be too much and too hard. To try to change my mind, I would sing and pull weeds, sitting there until the sun set, but nothing made me feel comfortable there. I lived with this family for over fifty years; please let me go now.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin

“The strength of a man whose own darkness could battle someone else's and perhaps come out stronger. A champion. A hero.
Daisy barely registered her actions before she threw herself into his arms. Nor did she contemplate what possible good a man could do against a force of evil when he was sitting in a wheelchair, unable to rise to do battle.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

“We all have weakness and strength. I have to fight against the weakness in my personality. Everyone of should fight against the weakness of the soul. Seek to build on your strengths.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Often, and I knew because I heard about it in sessions, people who revealed hurtful secrets were only trying to release their own pain by handing it off to someone else. Like a hot potato. Here, quick, take this searing knowledge so I don't have to hold it alone. This course of action is selfish and does no good, just scalds more people. I was not about to burden anyone else with my demons. Especially Ellie.”
― Sascha Rothchild

“Sometimes, we find the comfort we need in the misfortunes of others”
― Wiss Auguste, They Called Us Savages