Quotes of Solace - somelinesforyou

“ The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace? ”

- Zelda Fitzgerald

“ I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation. ”

- J. C. Macaulay

“ Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. ”

- Clementine Paddleford

“ Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. ”

- Samuel Rutherford

“ Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. ”

- Madame de Maintenon

“ Ah! Freedom is a noble thing! Freedom makes man to have liking: freedom all solace to man gives: he lives at ease that freely lives! ”

- John Barbour

“ What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ The true way of soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. ”

- Madame de Maintenon

“ Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. ”

- Lorraine Anderson

“ Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters? ”

- Alice Walker

“ Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. ”

- John Barbour

“ It matters little," she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius… ”

- Joseph Addison

“ The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature… ”

- Anne Frank
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