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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. — Emile M. Cioran
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? — Elisabeth Elliot
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader.… — Newell Dwight Hillis
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls. — Naomi Judd
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which… — Thornton Wilder
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Gautama Buddha
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. — Publilius Syrus
Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude. — Unknown Author
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards… — Gautama Buddha
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should… — Gautama Buddha
If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal… — Unknown Author
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm… — Sasha Azevedo
If you would live innocently, seek solitude. — Publilius Syrus
I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps… — Tommy Barnett
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor… — Andrew Johnson
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in… — John Milton
A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity.… — Anthony Lawlor
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying… — Francine Prose
Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had… — Herb Elliott
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. — Robert Breault
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from… — Gaston Bachelard
So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there... — Deborah Cox

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