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
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
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk 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 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
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
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
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg 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
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them,… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
“And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a fault for which I must be punished, but… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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