“But is an act ever really only about itself? Does any element of this story occur in isolation? I” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“Solitude can make you wise and give you peace, Isolation can drive you insane and make you crazy.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust. — Megan Lee Copy Share Image
“Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation. — Larry Constantine Copy Share Image
“THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world without touch… Relationships grow colder, trust erodes, and loneliness becomes the norm.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“he hoped the sheer isolation would keep most intruders from venturing in this direction. That, and the willingness of the Indians to… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of “self-sufficiency,” and then celebrates it.” — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
“In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Creating is often a solitary experience. Yet work made entirely in isolation is usually doomed to remain lonely.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to… — Irwin Kula Copy Share Image
For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most:… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus.… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Also, isolation leads to chronically lowered levels of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin. It is one of the bizarre ironies of major depression… — James Lee Copy Share Image
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“No island is an island, he said. There is no new land, just the same body broken open.” — Matt Rasmussen Copy Share Image
We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image