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🌙 Solitude
“No one is free who is not master of himself and mastery begins in solitude”
Self-mastery is cultivated in quiet self-reflection.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“It's okay to go alone. Just don't stop.”
— Anonymous
“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.”
— Louis Aragon
“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self.”
— Joseph Addison
“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self, and from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
— Lord Byron
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
— Charlotte Brontë
“Friendship needs no words it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness”
— Dag Hammarskjold
