Consolation Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”

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“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,…

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“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.”

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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,…

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“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”

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“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross…

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“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.”

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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

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The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

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Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

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I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

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