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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

  Simple, Soul, Labyrinth

  Lauren Artress (1996). “Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice”, p.74, Penguin

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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

  Beer, Thinking, America

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• I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Men, Thinking, Offering

  Yehudi Menuhin (1978). “Unfinished journey”

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• Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Mirrors, People

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

  Imogen Stubbs

  Love, Marriage, Joy

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• Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  Silence, Leaving, Each Day

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2014

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• I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

  Lisa Bonet

  Friendship, Religious, Dog

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope. This hope is a foretaste of future blessings, of which the soul even now receives direct experience, and so it comes to know in part the surpassing richness of God's bounty, in accordance with the Psalmist's words, 'Taste and know that the Lord is bountiful' (Ps. 34:8). For He is the jubilation of the righteous, the joy of the upright, the gladness of the humble, and the solace of those who grieve because of Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Seductive, Promise, Victory

  "I Can Think of Life, and Nothing Else" by Cliff Walker, January 2002.

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• Scenery without solace is meaningless.

  Mitch Albom

  Scenery, Meaningless

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Betrayal, Thinking, People

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• Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

  Voltaire

  Reading, Soul, Enlightened

  Voltaire, Roger Pearson (2006). “Candide and Other Stories”, p.222, OUP Oxford

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• You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Past, People

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.64, Vintage

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• Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Flower, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.94

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• It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, Horse, Fall

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• Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Compassion, Interesting

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Tires to sandals", 1993.

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• Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

  John Bunyan

  Father, Angel, Joy

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.98

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