If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously… — Tricia Rhodes Copy Share Image
“There is no companion so companionable as Solitude,” Thoreau reminds me as I carry a hot cup of tea back to bed.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Spirituality must be practiced not just in solitude but also among people. Open up to people around you and feel connected. This… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“In this quiet place on a quiet street where no one ever finds us gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain. --from… — Author-Poet Aberjhani 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
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when… — Barbara Erakko Taylor Copy Share Image
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
