“God understands everything. And even He made a mistake or two. Look at the size of avocado seeds - way too big.… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you.… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Sitting down and consoling someone when they have a minor cut like a paper cut. It obviously hurts, but it's the kind… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image