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• When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  Kay Arthur

  Pleasing Others, Contentment, Able

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• There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Pain, Doe, Action

  Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives—personal and patriotic—to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for history’s blessing.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, Patriotic, Blessing

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.

  G. H. Hardy

  Silly, Creative, Desire

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Sorrow, Admitting

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.4, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Mother, Agony, Bears

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• Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

  Albert Einstein

  Angel, Intellectual, Study

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Views, People

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.185, Psychology Press

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• I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.245

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• It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

  "A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander".

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• And because I love this life
  I know I shall love death as well
  The child cries out when
  From the right breast the mother
  Takes it away, in the very next moment
  To find in the left one
  Its consolation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Rest In Peace, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.47, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

  Robert Breault

  Nature, Believe, Animal

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• As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Nature, Eye

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• The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Photography, Mother, Country

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• Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue

  Gayle Forman

  Blue, Ties, Peaceful

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.99, Penguin

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• I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

  Tobias Wolff

  Pain, Knowing, Imagine

  Tobias Wolff (2007). “This Boy's Life: A Memoir”, p.230, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

  Paulo Coelho

  Losing Someone, Tragedy, Ifs

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

  Azar Nafisi

  People, Littles, Facts

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• And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Grief, Fate

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.106, Ballantine Books

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• Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dozen, Littles, Imagine

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• Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Fiction, Stories, World

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Thinking, Church

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• Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Reading, Choices

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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