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• Writing is the supreme solace.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Supreme

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• I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

  Paul Simon

  Growing, Talent, Majors

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• The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Running, Country, Nice

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

  Don Herold

  Funny, Women, Giving

  "Bigger & better".

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• The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

  Publilius Syrus

  Rewards, Labor

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• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes to the woods he goes because he needs to. I think he is drawn to the wilderness much as he is drawn to a woman: it is, in its way, his opposite. It is as far as possible unlike his home or his work or anything he will ever manufacture. For that reason he can take from it a solace-an understanding of himself, of what he needs and what he can do without-such as he can find nowhere else.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Home, Men

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• To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Pain, Cost, Opinion

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• In our own storms in life the Savior is our solace and our sanctuary. If we seek peace, we must come unto Him, the Man who suffered for mankind, who committed His life to healing the sick and comforting the disconsolate, is mindful of your sufferings, doubts, and heartaches. Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Healing, Mean, Men

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• Take solace, take comfort.
  Your problems, too, will go away one day. They're temporary.
  The only thing that is permanent in nature is in your heart.
  Recognize that and be fulfilled.
  Fulfill the possibility that was declared the day you were born,
  the moment you took your first breath.

  Prem Rawat

  Heart, One Day, Going Away

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• My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

  CJ Roberts

  Heart, Independent, Mentor

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• How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Children, Grief

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• 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

  Years, Mind, Body

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Pain, Believe, May

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.8, Bantam

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• There's no such thing as a free lunch.

  Milton Friedman

  Lunch Break, Economics, Ecological Crisis

  1973 Lecture. The phrase is thought to have been coined anonymously, perhaps referring to the 19c US tradition of supplying food in bars to patrons buying drinks.

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• I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.

  Brigid Schulte

  Helping Others, Knowing, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

  John Burns

  Real, Book, Action

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• Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

  Tom Robbins

  Beverages, Made

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.263, Bantam

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
  Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Heart, Broken

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• In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Study, Beneficial

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• 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.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Men, Long, Found

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• If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

  Studs Terkel

  Faith, Believe, People

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• As all nocturnal creatures, I have a tendency to wander about during the night, embracing and relishing in its mysteriousness, unexplained sounds, and thick aura of darkness. As a pianist I was drawn to compositions with the titles of Nocturne and Notturno - from Maria Szymanowska's Nocturne in B-flat to John Field and Frederic Chopin's Nocturnes. The night offers a myriad array of emotions from solace to absolute horror. I tried to infuse some of these terrifying thoughts, as well as solace that only night can bring into Night Soundings.

  Barbara Harbach

  Night, Darkness, Emotion

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing and love. Unless we can contribute something from wilderness experience, derive some solace or peace to share with others, then the real purpose is defeated.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Real, Solitude, And Love

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.52, Knopf

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