The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“You must cease concerning yourself with the dialects of Buddhism and instead learn how to look into your own mind in seclusion.” — Roshi P. Kapleau Copy Share Image
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and… — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as… — Georgiana Burne-Jones Copy Share Image
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time! — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
I wish I lived on my own. No parents. No friends. No adults. Nobody in general. No expectations...No need for others. Seclusion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He’s only ever wanted solace. To thrive in the crevices of existence, slip into the dark cracks of life and avoid the… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“In a multi-tasking world where pure focus is harder and harder to come by, paper’s seclusion from the Web is an emerging… — William_Powers Copy Share Image
