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Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.
Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's read more
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect read more
. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John read more
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
