Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we… — Alfred Korzybski 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
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of… — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
“These men, as she often muttered to friend Eleanor Topping, the two of them pressed together like sisters, their friendship filling in… — David Gilbert Copy Share Image
You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own… — Gail Jones Copy Share Image
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was… — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
“You used to give yourself over to endless sessions of doubt. You would claim to be an expert on the subject. But… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects… — Jessica Lange 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
I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I really enjoy DJing but I couldn't DJ exclusively. I couldn't produce exclusively either, that would involve spending a lot of time… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
“If you want to be in optimum emotional health, realize that social isolation stands between you and it. Reach out to others.… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
