There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“People often attempt to compensate for this loss of hope by comforting themselves with “consolation prizes”: easy but self-destructive habits like too… — Richard O'Connor Copy Share Image
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can… — Rupert Hughes Copy Share Image
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We are not entirely sure of the meaning of all of the symbolic stones and their placement. Neither Joseph Smith nor Brigham… — Loren C. Dunn Copy Share Image
. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Let sickness prostrate us, have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“When a child is lost there is no end to the self-torment a parent may inflict. When we love, and the object… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate… — Boethius Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“My child, I am the Lord Who gives strength in the day of trouble. Come to Me when all is not well… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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