Solace Quotes

167 quotes by 150 authors

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace;… — Richard Mitchell
Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong… — William James
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… — John Milton
When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the… — Greg Graffin
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing… — Sigurd F. Olson
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing. — Liz Carpenter
In our own storms in life the Savior is our solace and our sanctuary. If we seek peace, we must come unto Him, the Man… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through… — David Whyte
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable… — Leo Tolstoy
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all,… — Anna Quindlen
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not… — Sid Lovett
God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty… — Russell Kirk
Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch… — Charlotte Bronte
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever. — Danny Bonaduce
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that… — Joyce DiDonato

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