Intimacy with god Quote by Brennan Manning

“Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest humanity, and…

— Neel Burton

“Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, and loneliness. You will see that the world is not on your shoulders…

— Dallas Willard

“Silence doesn’t have to be a major pilgrimage into the wilderness in order to find a solitary space. Everyday tasks such as driving around…

— Ed Cyzewski

“Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God”

— Fulton Sheen

“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social…

— Bella DePaulo

“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility…

— David Foster Wallace

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need…

— Carl Jung

“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the sentimental, and…

— Alok Mishra

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at…

— Maya Angelou

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable…

— Thomas Mann

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

— William Gilmore Simms