“when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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“To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.” — Robert H. Baker Copy Share Image
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
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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
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
“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 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
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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
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The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the… — Thornton Wilder 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… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
When I read the script for 'A Quiet Place', I immediately wanted to be a part of the film. It is such… — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extentunwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust itwe perpetuate it within ourselves like… — EM Cioran Copy Share Image
I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories.… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
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Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
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He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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“Sometimes a moment of solitude is just a faded sorrow. You remember fringes of it, but forgot most of it. Moved on… — Crestless Wave Copy Share Image
“worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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People think being alone makes you lonely but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest… — Amanda Copy Share Image
“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
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