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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

  God, Heart, Simple

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• Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.

  Rumi

  Want Something, Soul, Rooms

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• It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Safety, Age, Middle

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.14, Overamstel Uitgevers

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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

  Style, Done, Satisfaction

  Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

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• Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doe, Way, Now And Then

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• Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Christian, Giving, Anxiety

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.560, Penguin UK

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• It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

  Robert Cormier

  Nice, Solitude, Would Be

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• As the years go by, he returns to this invisible world rather than to earth for peace and solace. There also he finds a profound enchantment, although he can seldom describe it. He can discuss it with others of his kind, and because they too know and feel its power they understand. But his attempts to communicate his feelings to his wife or other earthly confidants invariable end in failure.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Years, Profound, Wife

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• My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

  Rebecca Lim

  Real, Sleep, Absence

  Rebecca Lim (2010). “Mercy (Mercy, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Men, Light

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, Infinity

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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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

  Teacher, Pain, Training

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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

  Meaningful, Grief, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• 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 the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.

  David Whyte

  Self, Joy, Doorways

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• No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Home, Grace

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.61, Random House

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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

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  People, Belief, After Death

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• I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Missing, Gita, Sermon On The Mount

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• I think this is why the practice is such a comfort to secular urbanites like me-it's a technique, not a faith. You don't have to believe in anything, even yoga itself, to find joy and solace in the conscious joining of breath and movement, or relief in slowing the whirling of the mind. You just have to do it.

  Michelle Goldberg

  Yoga, Believe, Thinking

  Michelle Goldberg (2015). “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West”, p.10, Vintage

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• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  Caleb Scharf

  Real, Play, Space

  Caleb Scharf (2012). “Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos”, p.187, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Memorial Day, Adversity

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• 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 needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Heart, Eye, Understanding

  Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

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• 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 universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.

  Greg Graffin

  People, Creative, Feelings

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• My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

  H. G. Wells

  Reading, Animal, Night

  H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated Island of Doctor Moreau with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.168, Powell Publications, LLC

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