#reassure

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

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People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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