Solace Quotes - Page 9

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

Believe, Belief, Pleasure

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

John Milton

Children, Native Language, Delight

John Milton (1748). “The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes”, p.58

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Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

Roxane Gay

Writing, Salvation, Reader

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Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sports, Retirement, Motivation

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Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

Liz Carpenter

Laughter, Giving, Heal

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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

Spiritual, Writing, Technology

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Give the best you have received from the past to the best that you may come to know in the future. Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a chalice to be filled with whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good report. Making a living is best undertaken as part of the more important business of making a life. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands-a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace, and above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

Sid Lovett

Life, Stars, Past

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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

Beautiful, Ambition, Men

Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.

Charlotte Bronte

Eye, Light, Nurse

Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.177, Xist Publishing

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I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

Danny Bonaduce

Education, Home, Learning

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Amusement, Matter

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.221, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being.

Huston Smith

Religious, Kindness, Giving

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Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

Charles Spurgeon

Jesus, Justice, Done

Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.205, Editora Dracaena

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It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

Story Musgrave

Thinking, Order, Years

"NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to one another in the context of religious worship. As it is now our services are so antiseptic and sterile that people gathering for worship relate to others at only the most superficial level, and hardly ever get to know one another. . . . Maybe that is one of the reasons why people feel religion is irrelevant, because they cannot find support and solace during times of crisis and pain. That is when real religion should be at its best.

Joseph Girzone

Dream, Religious, Hurt

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Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.

Leslie Jamison

Nice, Book, Writing

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[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Nice, Men, Religion

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Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

Sandra Boynton

Food, Cooking, Chocolate

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Slander is the solace of malignity.

Joseph Joubert

Slander

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.84

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It's all a matter of history.
Brandy is no solace.
Librium only lies me down
like a dead snow queen.
Yes! I am still the criminal.

Anne Sexton

Depression, Queens, Lying

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The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

David E. Sorensen

Jesus, Pain, Suffering

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In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind.

Steve Goodier

Jobs, Islands, Turtles

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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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