{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"James Patterson","tags":["blush","comfort","comforting","confidence","flush","friendship","help","holding-hands","love","support","worry"],"id":19136,"author_id":"James+Patterson"},{"text":"We have to expect disappointments, trouble, losses and hurts as an inevitable part of life. It is vital to repeat to ourselves the most important and comforting words of all time: THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY!","author":"Donald Pillai","tags":["comforting","hurting","inspirational","motivational","motivational-inspirational","motivational","pain"],"id":22288,"author_id":"Donald+Pillai"},{"text":"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.","author":"Howard Bahr","tags":["comfort","comforting","men","work"],"id":44067,"author_id":"Howard+Bahr"},{"text":"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.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["adversity","affliction","comforters","comforting","distress","empathy","grief","hardship","pain","sorrow","suffering"],"id":62804,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"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.","author":"Caryll Houselander","tags":["catholic-","children","comforting"],"id":68895,"author_id":"Caryll+Houselander"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","comfort","comforting","decision","decisions","familiar","familiarity","fear","fearful","forfeit","lose","mediocre","mediocrity","miss","passive"],"id":75139,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"...Shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.","author":"Beth Lewis","tags":["comfort","comforting","deprivation","distraction","greed","psychological","sadness"],"id":87323,"author_id":"Beth+Lewis"},{"text":"Peace, Love, and Happiness, are the priceless treasures of life.","author":"Ellen J. Barrier","tags":["comforting","emotions","expressions","feelings","happiness","inspiration","love","peace"],"id":89570,"author_id":"Ellen+J.+Barrier"},{"text":"Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee...' -Jesus the Christ.","author":"Joseph Smith Jr.","tags":["comforting","lds","uplifting"],"id":125871,"author_id":"Joseph+Smith+Jr."},{"text":"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.').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["brains","comforting","counter","cracks","daily-living","darkness","frostiness","grief","impound","seep","soothing","thinking","twilight","wind","withering","words"],"id":142746,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}