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Quotes About Reassurance

We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly comforted by that. He was a lawyer.
~ David Wong
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
~ Deb Caletti
You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.
~ Deb Caletti
Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.
~ Deb Caletti
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives your some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
~ Deb Caletti
...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. "I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.
~ John Knowles, A Separate Peace
I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.
~ Dar Williams
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
~ Deb Caletti
Knowing that there will be a way out, an end to the problem, is itself reassuring.
~ Jay E. Adams
Franklin crashed flat on the marble, his crutches clattering down beside him. Onlookers rushed in, then drew back, uncertain what to do. With an enormous effort Roosevelt wrestled himself into a sitting position. He laughed reassuringly. "There's nothing to worry about," he told anxious spectators. "We'll get out of this all right. Give me a hand there.
~ Jean Edward Smith
Ed said, "I can tell you, when we heard that baby was going to be all right, there wasn't a dry seat in the castle." "I'm so happy to hear that," Marigold sold. "I think.
~ Jean Ferris
In the next few minutes, both of them sensed the false cheerfulness that came from trying to reassure the other in the face of real doubts. But they each were still glad they ahd someone to be falsely cheerful for.
~ Jean Ferris
What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!
~ Jean Plaidy
From now on, when we board, each time we board, I will remind you to be terrified,' she says. 'And you remind me, too: this is not normal.' 'This is not normal.' Soledad nods.
~ Jeanine Cummins
Pero no te preocupes, mi reina del alma—tu sufrimiento será breve.
~ Jeanine Cummins
After evading the chase of predators, animals often nuzzle each other as a means of stress relief. This bodily contact provides reassurance of safety and relieves stress.
~ Jeanne Segal
a great many ills of adults might be cured by a nap or a good meal or a bit of timely reassurance.
~ Elizabeth Berg
He supposes a great many ills of adults might be cured by a nap or a good meal or a bit of timely reassurance. But adults complicate everything. They are by nature complicators. They learned to make things harder than they need to be and they learned to talk way too much.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I will come back as a little breeze," she says. "You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I'm still listening. So you can still talk to me.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Jesus? she breathed. Into Jesus' face came the old smle with which he had so often looked at the children who crowded around him. It is--all right? she whispered. It is all right, Jesus answered. Do not be afraid.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK beacuse he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that- he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds it endearing and encouraging that a legendary Roman philosopher had to reassure himself that it's okay not to be Plato.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
His face had gone still and for a moment her heart sank and she had to fortify herself for a battle. But then his mouth quirked like that (...) and she knew even before he said anything else that it was all going to be fine--more than fine. It was going to be wonderful .
~ Elizabeth Hoyt