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βI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my shipβ
β Louisa May Alcott
βI am quite comfortable alone with my thoughts and my purposeβ
β Abraham Lincoln
βIn the quiet hours of reflection we find the truest version of ourselvesβ
β Albert Schweitzer
βThe most common form of despair is not being who you areβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βWisdom tells me I am nothing love tells me I am everything between the two my life flowsβ
β Nisargadatta Maharaj
βIn the darkness two shadows reaching through the hopeless heavy dusk their hands met and light spilled in a flood like a survey of the sunβ
β Madeline Miller
βWhen you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourselfβ
β Shunryu Suzuki
βI have learned how faces fall how terror peers from lowered eyesβ
β Anna Akhmatova
βIf you have the words there is always a chance that you will find the wayβ
β Seamus Heaney
βIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshedβ
β Khalil Gibran
βSilence is a source of great strengthβ
β Lao Tzu
βIn a field I am the absence of field this is always the case wherever I am I am what is missingβ
β Mark Strand
βBe alone that is the secret of invention be alone that is when ideas are bornβ
β Nikola Tesla
βNot thinking about anything is Zen once you know this walking sitting or lying down everything you do is Zenβ
β Bodhidharma
βIn silence there is eloquence stop weaving and see how the pattern improvesβ
β Rumi
βSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human conditionβ
β Octavio Paz
βI celebrate myself and sing myselfβ
β Walt Whitman
βYour hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nightsβ
β Kahlil Gibran
βThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.β
β Lord Byron
βEver since happiness heard your name it has been running through the streets trying to find youβ
β Hafiz
βAppear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend march swiftly to places where you are not expectedβ
β Sun Tzu
βIt is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste much of it in noiseβ
β Seneca
βYou wanna fly you got to give up the stuff that weighs you downβ
β Toni Morrison
βSilence is a true friend who never betraysβ
β Confucius
βThe quieter you become the more you can hearβ
β Ram Dass
βBe melting snow wash yourself of yourselfβ
βTo study the Buddha Way is to study the self to study the self is to forget the selfβ
β Dogen
βSettle into solitude as if it were an old friend.β
βSilence is not about hearing nothing silence is about hearing everything at onceβ
β Cynthia Bourgeault
βI never found a companion that was so companionable as solitudeβ
β Henry David Thoreau
βThere is nothing like staying at home for real comfortβ
β Jane Austen
βThe person who has not learned to be alone is a person who does not know themselves.β
βEvery day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moonβ
β Ikkyu
βWe do not grow absolutely chronologically we grow sometimes in one dimension and not in anotherβ
β AnaΓ―s Nin
βI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poemsβ
β Wislawa Szymborska
βNothing in all creation is so like God as stillnessβ
β Meister Eckhart
βIf you want a place to rest Cold Mountain is good white clouds settle on the rocky peaksβ
β Han Shan
βWhen we have nothing to cling to as our own we can even welcome the unknownβ
β Henri Nouwen
βSettle into solitude as if it were the one thing in the world you know how to do.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry treesβ
β Pablo Neruda
βHappiness is a skill that can be trained and solitude is one of its training groundsβ
β Matthieu Ricard
βThe individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribeβ
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βNo one is free who is not master of himself and mastery begins in solitudeβ
β Epictetus
βI have studied the science of departuresβ
β Osip Mandelstam
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityβ
β Simone Weil
βThe sole cause of human unhappiness is that people do not know how to sit quietly in a roomβ
β Blaise Pascal
βThe soul is healed by being with children and by being in solitude with ones own thoughtsβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βA man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.β
β Arthur Schopenhauer
βWhat is most personal is most universalβ
β Carl Rogers
βThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in stormβ
β Willa Cather
βTo write poetry one must bring full attention to the taskβ
β Jane Hirshfield
βA wandering mind is a sign that something is wrong with our prayerβ
β Evagrius Ponticus
βWe live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings any human power can be resisted and changed by human beingsβ
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βTo be alone with your own thoughts is a luxury that most cannot affordβ
β Michael Harris
βAn honorable human relationship is one in which two people have the right to use the word loveβ
β Adrienne Rich
βIn solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.β
β Laurence Sterne
βThe mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.β
βLet the one who cannot be alone beware of communityβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βIf you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peaceβ
β Ajahn Chah
βThe darkness around us is deepβ
β Robert Bly
βDont ask yourself what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come aliveβ
β Howard Thurman
βThe thief left it behind the moon at my windowβ
β Ryokan
βAll life is yogaβ
β Sri Aurobindo
βSilence is essential we need silence just as much as we need air just as much as plants need lightβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βA happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can liveβ
β Bertrand Russell
βAloneness is a flower a lotus blooming in your heartβ
β Osho
βI go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out and I say oh I am miserable what shall I do and the sea says in its lovely voice excuse me I have work to doβ
β Mary Oliver
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be wellβ
β Julian of Norwich
βSettle into solitude like a tree in the midst of a vast plain β rooted, silent, and alive.β
βYou must understand the whole of life not just one little part of it that is why you must read that is why you must look at the skies that is why you must sing and danceβ
β J. Krishnamurti
βThe capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are requiredβ
β Anthony Storr
βHow wild it was to let it beβ
β Cheryl Strayed
βInside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making shipsβ
β Charles Simic
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks in solitary communionβ
β John Muir
βOne can never have enough socks a good pair of thick winter socks can bring one closer to that simple peace of solitudeβ
β Virginia Woolf
βThe time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door in your own mirrorβ
β Derek Walcott
βSilence is not the absence of sound but the absence of selfβ
β Anthony de Mello
βThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mindβ
β Albert Einstein
βOne can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.β
βWhen the mind is free from all conditions it is called basic mindβ
β Joshu
βWhen you know who you are everything else falls into placeβ
β Jean Klein
βSolitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.β
β James Russell Lowell
βDo not be afraid of silence do not be afraid of aloneness just sit and the jewels of peace and happiness will come to youβ
β Ajahn Brahm
βWe look at the world once in childhood the rest is memoryβ
β Louise Gluck
βWandering is the activity of the child the passion of the genius it is the discovery of the self it is the artist walkingβ
β Rebecca Solnit
βAlertness is the hidden discipline of familiarityβ
β David Whyte
βI am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent willβ
β Charlotte Bronte
βTo go in the dark with a light is to know the light to know the dark go dark go without sight and find that the dark too blooms and singsβ
β Wendell Berry
βSolitude was my only consolation deep dark deathlike solitudeβ
β Mary Shelley
βIn an age of speed I began to think nothing could be more invigorating than going slow in an age of distraction nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attentionβ
β Pico Iyer
βThe art of losing isnt hard to masterβ
β Elizabeth Bishop
βAnd stand together yet not too near together for the pillars of the temple stand apart and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadowβ
βWalking along dripping wet no umbrellaβ
β Santoka Taneda
βBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselvesβ
βHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness found in solitary acceptanceβ
β Zhuangzi
βThere is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter everything is within everything exists nowhere elseβ
β Miyamoto Musashi
βGo sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everythingβ
β Desert Fathers
βI have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian a Hindu a Muslim a Buddhist a Jewβ
βSilence is a place of great power and healingβ
β Sara Maitland
βHe who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.β
β Gautama Buddha
βI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am I am I amβ
β Sylvia Plath
βYou need not leave your room remain sitting at your table and listen do not even listen simply wait be quiet still and solitary the world will freely offer itself to youβ
β Franz Kafka
βThe time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayerβ
β Brother Lawrence
βJust to be is a blessing just to live is holyβ
β Abraham Joshua Heschel
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know in our solitudeβ
β Pema Chodron
βIn the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let goβ
β Jack Kornfield
βThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles but only by a spiritual journeyβ
βI exist as I am and that is enough in the grand solitude of beingβ
βThe flower does not dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comesβ
β Mark Nepo
βInhabited space transcends geometrical spaceβ
β Gaston Bachelard
βI sometimes think I enjoy suffering but the truth is I would like the sky to be clear yet I also love clouds and rainβ
β Fernando Pessoa
βThere is no savor more sweet more salt than to be glad to be what woman and who myself I amβ
β Denise Levertov
βThe thoughtful soul to solitude retires.β
β Omar Khayyam
βFor oft when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitudeβ
β William Wordsworth
βSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.β
βThe person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week, has missed life's greatest serenity.β
β Lin Yutang
βWhen you cease to fear your solitude a new creativity awakens in youβ
β John O Donohue
βThe mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitudeβ
βSolitude matters and for some people it is the air that they breatheβ
β Susan Cain
βIn our lives we will inevitably face painful experiences but the suffering that accompanies them is optionalβ
β Tara Brach
βSilence is the language of God all else is poor translationβ
βSolitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiencesβ
β Cal Newport
βA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fictionβ
βNowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soulβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βSolitude is that human situation in which I keep myself companyβ
β Hannah Arendt
βWithin each of us there is a silence a silence as vast as a universe we are afraid of it and we long for itβ
β Gunilla Norris
βDetached observer just watching the moon I belong to the autumn nightβ
β Saigyo
βOne of the lovely things about solitude is that it can happen in the middle of a crowdβ
βOne is not born free but becomes free through solitary reflectionβ
β Simone de Beauvoir
βIn order to understand the world one has to turn away from it on occasionβ
β Albert Camus
βThe strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patienceβ
β Leo Tolstoy
βSilence is a place of freedomβ
β Anne D. LeClaire
βSolitude is the place of purificationβ
β Martin Buber
βIn solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of thingsβ
β Thomas Merton
βThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestlyβ
βGo out into the solitude and close the door behind thee. Let the manifold world that makes thee dizzy vanish from thy sight.β
β Mechthild of Magdeburg
βSolitude is the audience-chamber of God.β
β Walter Savage Landor
βThe person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen.β
β Francis Philip Frangipane
βWhen you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourself when you lose touch with yourself you lose yourself in the worldβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βTrue silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.β
β William Penn
βSolitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peaceβ
β Vicki Robin
βI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees but first I must learn what spring does aloneβ
βWhen you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades and your image of the world fades and your ideas of others fade what is left a luminous empty awarenessβ
β Adyashanti
βRetire into yourself for the rational principle that rules has this nature: to be content with itselfβ
βSometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for youβ
βBe content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to youβ
βAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including youβ
β Anne Lamott
βIf you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.β
β Jean-Paul Sartre
βSolitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others but rather a practice of mindful presenceβ
β Parker Palmer
βA man can be himself only so long as he is alone and if he does not love solitude he will not love freedomβ
βThe quieter you become the more you can hear the universe speakingβ
βIf you are lonely when you are alone you are in bad companyβ
βThe great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitudeβ
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βSolitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.β
β Thomas De Quincey
βSolitude is the companion of greatness and the nurse of geniusβ
β Petrarch
βIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journeyβ
βWithin you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any timeβ
β Hermann Hesse
βKnowing others is intelligence but knowing yourself is true wisdomβ
βWe must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing a wakefulness that is the birthright of us allβ
β Plotinus
βThe supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realizationβ
β Anandamayi Ma
βStillness is your essential nature what is stillness it is the inner space in which the words on this page are being perceivedβ
βYou do not have to be good you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repentingβ
βDare to declare who you are it is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speechβ
β Hildegard of Bingen
βSilence is essential for deep transformation to take placeβ
βSilence is about getting inside what you are doing being in the world not just observing it from outsideβ
β Erling Kagge
βBefore you know what kindness really is you must lose thingsβ
β Naomi Shihab Nye
βStop seeking and you will find what you are looking forβ
β Papaji
βI love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or prideβ
βI have become my own version of an optimist if I cant make it through one door I will go through another or I will make a doorβ
β Rabindranath Tagore
βLet me not look for allies in lifes battlefield but to my own strength aloneβ
βThe winds of grace blow all the time all we need to do is set our sailsβ
β Ramakrishna
β Thomas Keating
βWithin you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourselfβ
βIt is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinion it is easy in solitude to live after our own but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitudeβ
βI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.β
β Emily BrontΓ«
βWhat I am pointing to is the possibility of complete and total peace right here right now regardless of any circumstances internal or externalβ
β Gangaji
βYou do not need to leave your room to discover the worldβ
βWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.β
β Aristotle
βWhat do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each otherβ
β George Eliot
βThe moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious worldβ
β Henry Miller
βHappiness is the absence of the striving for happinessβ
β Chuang Tzu
βWe do not think ourselves into new ways of living we live ourselves into new ways of thinkingβ
β Richard Rohr
βI desire the things that will destroy me in the endβ
βIf you wish to be a writer writeβ
βWe must unlearn the constellations to see the starsβ
β Jack Gilbert
βThe best portion of a good life is the little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love done in quietβ
βIt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.β
βMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it aloneβ
β Alan Watts
βBeware the barrenness of a busy life for true richness comes from withinβ
β Socrates
βIn solitude we find that our life is not diminished but expandedβ
βIt is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew and in that there is joyβ
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βFrom blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the roadβ
β Li-Young Lee
βYour task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against itβ
βThe purpose of all our effort is to achieve purity of heartβ
β Cassian
βDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise but seek what they sought in solitary contemplationβ
β Matsuo Basho
βAttention is the beginning of devotionβ
βLanguage has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and solitude to express the gloryβ
β Paul Tillich
βAre you looking for me I am in the next seat my shoulder is against yoursβ
β Kabir
βA talent is formed in stillness a character in the world stream of lifeβ
βSeclusion is the price of greatness.β
β Paramahansa Yogananda
βA man can be himself only so long as he is aloneβ
β Schopenhauer
βThe strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.β
β Henrik Ibsen
βSilence is the true teaching it is the perfect teaching it is suited only for the most advanced seekerβ
β Ramana Maharshi
βI ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slideβ
β Billy Collins
βYou are the sky everything else is just the weatherβ
βI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.β
βThe only journey is the one withinβ
βThat is what learning is you suddenly understand something that you have understood all your life but in a new wayβ
β Doris Lessing
βWhenever you are creating beauty around you you are restoring your own soulβ
β Alice Walker
βThe function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who praysβ
βI am awfully greedy I want everything from life I want to be a woman and to be a man to have many friends and to have lonelinessβ
βA room without books is like a body without a soul and solitude without reflection is mere emptinessβ
β Cicero
βIn the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summerβ
βThe small man builds cages for everyone he knows while the sage who has to duck his head when the moon is low keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisonersβ
βA man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.β
βSolitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from ones selfβ
βSolitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous β to poetry.β
β Thomas Mann
βOnce you begin to recognize the divine image in yourself you begin to see it everywhereβ
β Mooji
βWhen one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others tooβ
β Anne Morrow Lindbergh
βNothing is harder to do than nothingβ
β Jenny Odell
βSolitude shows us the way back to our essential beauty which waits for us under our covering of opinions and attitudesβ
β Roger Housden
βThe quieter you become the more you can hear the whispers of your own soulβ
βKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escapeβ
β bell hooks
βOn the last day of the world I would want to plant a treeβ
β W.S. Merwin
βWhere should the swordsman fix his mind nowhere let the body and limbs work themselves out according to a discipline they have undergoneβ
β Takuan Soho
βThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of griefβ
βWhereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silentβ
β Ludwig Wittgenstein
βThe separate self is an intermittent experience awareness is the ever-present backgroundβ
β Rupert Spira
βSolitude is the place of purification.β
β Martin Luther
βYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakesβ
β Carl Jung
βEverything is a passing show learn to enjoy the showβ
β Robert Adams
βOne day I will find the right words and they will be simpleβ
β Jack Kerouac
βIn silence and stillness a devout soul makes progress and learns the hidden things of the scripturesβ
β Thomas a Kempis
βSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itselfβ
βHappiness is not in objects nor in events nor in experiences it is in usβ
β Francis Lucille
βI dwell in possibilityβ
β Emily Dickinson
βConversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.β
β Edward Gibbon
βOnce you fall into a reflective life you discover how little you needβ
βOur lives are filled with noise and activity but the deepest truth is born in silenceβ
β Wayne Muller
βI hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people that each should stand guard over the solitude of the otherβ
βI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.β
β Unknown
βBe regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your workβ
β Gustave Flaubert
βLanguage has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being aloneβ
βThe best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.β
β Thomas Edison
βAloneness is not loneliness loneliness is a negative state aloneness is positive aloneness is fullβ
βYour unborn mind is not something you learned how to have you were born with itβ
β Bankei
βLet him who cannot be alone beware of community let him who is not in community beware of being aloneβ
βThe deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once and my conviction is to report that dialogueβ
β Stanley Kunitz
βAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room aloneβ
βWhat a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.β
β Ellen Burstyn
βI never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.β
βThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneselfβ
β Montaigne
βIn a day when you dont come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong pathβ
β Vivekananda
βTo walk in beauty means to walk with gratitude and appreciation for the natural worldβ
β Angeles Arrien
βBe alone and watch what happens when you are alone and totally accepting of your alonenessβ
βBe still and heal let the forest take away your worriesβ
βThe root of joy is gratefulness it is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyfulβ
β David Steindl-Rast
βThe little things they are not littleβ
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βGo back and pick up what you have left behind your creative life your ideas your dreams your hopes your original natureβ
β Clarissa Pinkola Estes
βIn the dark night of the soul bright flows the river of Godβ
β John of the Cross
βThe only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliatedβ
β Ted Hughes
βSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition man is the only being who knows he is aloneβ
βSolitude is a way of waiting for the inexpressible and the unknowable to make itself feltβ
β Sadhguru
βHe who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.β
βWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a wellβ
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βIn the middle of the forest there is an unexpected clearing which can only be found by those who have gotten lostβ
β Tomas Transtromer
βTry to praise the mutilated worldβ
β Adam Zagajewski
βPeople neglect the root and seek the branchesβ
β Huang Po
βKnowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom mastering others is strength mastering yourself is true powerβ
βWe do not come into this world we come out of it as leaves from a tree as the ocean waves the universe peoplesβ
βSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was a giftβ
βPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from usβ
βIn our natural state we are glorious beings in the world of illusion we are lost and imprisoned slaves to our appetites and our will to false powerβ
β Marianne Williamson
βAll that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is changeβ
β Octavia Butler
βSolitude is not a private therapeutic place but the place of conversionβ
βWilderness is the place where we learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable aloneβ
β Brene Brown
βLoneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of selfβ
β May Sarton
βWhat is poetry which does not save nations or peopleβ
β Czeslaw Milosz
βSettle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourselfβ
β Teresa of Avila
βWhen you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourselfβ
βWhen hungry eat when tired sleep fools may laugh at me but wise men will know what I meanβ
β Linji
βMeditation is the ultimate mobile device you can use it anywhere anytime unobtrusivelyβ
β Sharon Salzberg
βWe have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one best discovered aloneβ
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through in its cocoonβ
β Maya Angelou
βTalk to yourself like you would to someone you loveβ
βIn silence and in quiet the devout soul advances and learns the hidden meaningsβ
βMy imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.β
β Patricia Highsmith
βThe great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space free from the outside pressures.β
β Marya Mannes
βWe write to taste life twice in the moment and in retrospectβ
β Anais Nin
βI have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after in the silence of my soulβ
β Emily Bronte
βThings wont just lean together and create what we need to liveβ
β Kay Ryan
βThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.β
β Aldous Huxley
βWithout great solitude no serious work is possible.β
β Pablo Picasso
βThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyesβ
β Marcel Proust
βThe bud stands for all things even for those things that dont flowerβ
β Galway Kinnell
βSettle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself.β
β Teresa of Γvila
βLanguage has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.β
βIn the stillness of the night I have walked with you and we have spoken in the silence of our heartsβ
βThere are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects itβ
β Edith Wharton
βThe place where we are right is hard and trampled like a yard but doubts and loves dig up the world like a mole a plowβ
β Yehuda Amichai
βSolitude is the cure for the sickness caused by companyβ
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