Wordless Wednesday- Soups
Tag: comfort
Simple Sunday- Tea
“I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.” – Leo Tolstoy
“There’s always time for tea.” – Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother’s pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, ‘In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes’.”-Aprilynne Pike, Illusions
“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.” – Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow
Simple Sunday- Books!
The book sales we normally go to in April were postponed, but I had posts planned already. So you get book quotes! Hopefully they’ll inspire you to get into a good book.
“There was also something about the smell of bookshops that was strangely comforting to her. She wondered if it was the scent of ink and paper, or the perfume of binding, string, and glue. Maybe it was the scent of knowledge. Information. Thoughts and ideas. Poetry and love. All of it bound into one perfect, calm place.”- Alyson Richman, The Garden of Letters
“The room is warm and smells like dust, and just the presence of so many books makes it easier to breathe. It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.”- Mackenzi Lee, The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home–they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”- Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.” –Confucius
Simple Sunday- Comfort
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.” ― James Herriot, James Herriot’s Cat Stories
“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.” – Thomas De Quincey
“Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day. Sometimes they exist to comfort you. Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad. Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.” – Terry Pratchett
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”- Jane Austen
“Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.”- Joyce Meyer
Simple Sunday
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot’s Cat Stories
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”
[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
― E.B. White
“When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one’s ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort – these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.” – Joyce Carol Oates