#comfort

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#greatest #mankind #syphilis

We both grew so used to each other, so comfortable with the naturalness and ease of our friendship, that we became sloppy about keeping our relationship a secret. It was not that we were physically demonstrative or obviously in love, more that it had become impossible for us to hide our close involvement. We had gradually acquired the unmistakable air of old-love: finishing each other's sentences and speaking to each other with an offhand, presuming intimacy that was eventually noticed. ↗

— Kate Kerrigan

#friendship #love #relationship #friendship

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#comfort #family #mercy-thompson #pack #silver-borne

"At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional. ↗

— Robert Godden

#comfort #coziness #family #holidays #tea

...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#food

Stroking a blob as it rolled along her face with one hand, and with the other gently grasping a lump on the back of her accident-prone head, I told my sweet sack of potatoes I knew just what she needed. A thermometer reading. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#consolation #funny #thermometer #funny

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing. ↗

— Aaliyah

#classy #comfortable #i #i see #myself

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smoothe and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success. ↗

— Luci Shaw

#god #pain #life

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ↗

— John Maxwell

#growth #life #life

People like hurting each other... but loving is not a waste. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#hurting #love #love