You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
“Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last… — Emily C.A. Snyder Copy Share Image
When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is ‘it will probably be okay,’ then run the other way… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with… — Eric Ambler 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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