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Tag Name "Solace" (138)

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I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.
Bobby Knight
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
Czeslaw Milosz
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One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.
Frank Church
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I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.
Brigid Schulte
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I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.
Solange Knowles
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The labyrinth literally reintroduces the experience of walking a clearly defined path. This reminds us that there is a path, a process that brings us to unity, to the center of our beings. In the simple act of walking, the soul finds solace and peace.
Lauren Artress
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At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.
Camille Pissarro
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
Moliere
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The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
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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 the human heart?
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.
Haruki Murakami
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Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.
Tom Robbins
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The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride it seems to nourish and augment it it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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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, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.
Anna Quindlen
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In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.
C. S. Lewis
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O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
Horace
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...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 of their lot.
Russell Kirk
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Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.
Susan Cohn Rockefeller
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Writing is the supreme solace.
W. Somerset Maugham
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For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
Lady Bird Johnson
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I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
Ben Katchor
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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 it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.
Richard Mitchell
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