Mental Solace Quotes

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Once the mind is met with understanding, it can always find its way home.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.

If you are having a hard week, turn on one of my songs. Some people are here for different things in life. My job is to make you forget about your troubles.

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

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?

Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didn't have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.

The ultimate comfort zone is within.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.