Quotes About Finding Solace

#1. Feel for others - in your pocket

Charles Spurgeon

#2. 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

#3. I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.

Pete Hamill

#4. Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

George W. Crane

#5. A woman's strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence...

Virginia Alison

#6. Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

Pete Du Pont

#7. There's something epic that happens every day if you look hard enough for it.

Kim Holden

#8. There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.

Eilis O'Neal

#9. In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

Kym Whitley

#10. For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

Pope Gregory VII

#11. Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs.

Donatella Versace

#12. True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

Gretel Ehrlich

#13. My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

Harmony Korine

#14. Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for.

Travis Bradberry

#15. The event had every promise of happiness for her friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying, generous friendship

Jane Austen

#16. If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Amy Grant

#17. Mac- "I'm afraid you'll leave me behind since you can't see me."
Ryodan- "I'd leave you behind if I could see you.

Karen Marie Moning

#18. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)

Muse

#19. It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

David Duchovny

#20. Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

James Hudson Taylor

#21. Finding joy in times of pain begins with understanding that true joy is rooted in God. Thus, keeping one's relationship with God at the center of one's life is essential to discovering areas of joy, comfort and solace.

James Martin