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Quotes About Soothing

Though working in the kitchen is soothing, I'm glad I don't have to cook all the time. Then it would be work.
~ Mary Jo Putney
Taste like pillows.
~ Unknown
they are quite cozy and comfortable, too.
~ Unknown
I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
~ Mason Cooley
The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.
~ Matt Haig
There was something soothing about a wedding, a confirmation that Victorian social order hadn't completely broken down; that it was possible to find your soulmate and live happily ever after like in some cheesy romcom, unlikely though it seemed.
~ Meg Rosoff
And then I take some sedatives, and everything's dandy. Everything's dandy.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Teenagers, who swing from one threat to their fragile evolving personhood to another in quick succession throughout the day, especially depend on the soothing patterns of sound to restore order in their consciousness. But so do many adults. One
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Understanding is the elixir of life, the soothing balm that helps dry tears and erase wrinkles.
~ Mike Dooley
In a feverish world she is like a cool drink.
~ Miss Read
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
~ Molly Ringwald
Depression from loneliness in her there is something soothing and comforting in the feeling of romance, in the emptiness of feelings. Reality seems endless.
~ Unknown
the sound of the ocean is quiet as a mother shushing her baby,
~ Naomi Alderman
He felt the joy spread down his body like a slow anointing with holy oil, warm and soothing, from head to toe.
~ Naomi Ragen
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
~ Nicholson Baker
Even direct from the hearth it will not burn hand that holds it, and any who drink from it are healed.
~ Nicola Griffith
It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.
~ Oswald Chambers
Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.
~ Oswald Chambers
babies wake up between their sleep cycles, which last about two hours. It's normal for them to cry a bit when they're first learning to connect these cycles. If a parent automatically interprets this cry as a demand for food or a sign of distress and rushes in to soothe the baby, the baby will have a hard time learning to connect the cycles on his own. That is, he'll need an adult to come in and soothe him back to sleep at the end of each cycle.
~ Pamela Druckerman
eating chocolates, or lying in the sun; it was soothing, warming, totally pleasing.
~ Unknown
In retrospect I can clearly see that as my self-compassion increased, my toxic shame decreased. Modern advances in neuroscience [see: A General Theory of Love] suggest that we are intrinsically limited in our ability to emotionally regulate and soothe ourselves. More and more research suggests that our ability to metabolize painful emotional states is enhanced by communicating with a safe enough other person.
~ Unknown
Just like the splint sets a broken arm properly, your undivided attention and soothing, non-judgmental language set the conditions for your child, in his or her own time, to rebound to a healthy sense of well-being.
~ Peter A. Levine