Beating Heart Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The same is true for your fiancée, Bewildered. She is your joy on wheels whose every experience is informed and altered by the fact…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been…

— Geraldine Brooks

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

— Immanuel Kant

“Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence…

— Colum McCann

“With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that she was out of my league; that I was so haunted and stirred even…

— Donna Tartt

“She consoled herself with the thought that she looked terrifying.”

— Virginia Lowell

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is…

— Anglican clergyman

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to…

— Anonymous