Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“He hadn't left any of the stretches that he'd done of me. But he did leave a sketch of my rocking chair.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Rays of sunlight danced across the motionless silverware. Solitude. Beautiful solitude. So beautiful he couldn’t stand it anymore, not when his existence… — Z.K. Kostka Copy Share Image
“The daily decisions made to stay, to find the new equilibrium. She likes the intimacy, the shared seclusion, efforts at inclusion. How… — Jay E. Tria Copy Share Image
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir.… — David A. Cooper Copy Share Image
“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
When we commit ourselves to times of solitude with the Lord, we cannot know what will happen... How we will change, in… — Penelope J Stokes Copy Share Image
“The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not the twelve-year-old,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. How commonplace and stupid it would be… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Independence is the luxury of all those people who are too confident, and busy, and popular, and attractive to be just plain… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
“At bottom, for me, the act of writing is a sort of dialogue with God. I say with God, but I am… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
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