“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend… — Aelred of Rievaulx Copy Share Image
As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed,… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity -- of schedules and pastimes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Living Holy Week following Jesus means learning how to come out of ourselves to reach out to others, to go to the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
The chief consolation for nature's imperfection in the case of man is that not even for a god are all things possible… — Imperfection Copy Share Image
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things:… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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