Consoling Quotes

When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are. - Ken Wilber

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own. - George Moore

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. - Kay Knudsen

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me. - Richard Dawkins

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity. - Giuseppe Mazzini

Standing at a light switch to each east and west horizon, Every dawn you're surprising, and in the evening one's consoling Saying "See it wasn't quite as bad as" Well, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know. - Modest Mouse

Sitting down and consoling someone when they have a minor cut like a paper cut. It obviously hurts, but it's the kind of pain that has no future, it has an end. I'm bad at biding that time with ooohs and aaaahs. - Alice Eve