"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." - James Russell Lowell

🌙 Solitude

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

You need both — time with people and time alone. Your imagination needs that quiet space to stretch out and breathe. Balance is everything.

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making something out of it after it is found.”

— James Russell Lowell

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

— James Russell Lowell

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

— James Russell Lowell

“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”

— James Russell Lowell