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тАЬуАМI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Unknown
тАЬуАМConversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Edward Gibbon
тАЬуАМThe mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Nikola Tesla
тАЬуАМThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles but only by a spiritual journeyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Wendell Berry
тАЬуАМSolitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others rather it means never living apart from ones selfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Parker Palmer
тАЬуАМI desire the things that will destroy me in the endуАНтАЭ
тАФ Sylvia Plath
тАЬуАМSolitude is the cure for the sickness caused by companyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Petrarch
тАЬуАМSilence is a place of great power and healingуАНтАЭ
тАФ Sara Maitland
тАЬуАМSolitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peaceуАНтАЭ
тАФ Vicki Robin
тАЬуАМA man can be himself only so long as he is alone and if he does not love solitude he will not love freedomуАНтАЭ
тАФ Seneca
тАЬуАМSolitude is not a private therapeutic place but the place of conversionуАНтАЭ
тАФ Henri Nouwen
тАЬуАМThe purpose of all our effort is to achieve purity of heartуАНтАЭ
тАФ Cassian
тАЬуАМA man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Arthur Schopenhauer
тАЬуАМI prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poemsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Wislawa Szymborska
тАЬуАМHow wild it was to let it beуАНтАЭ
тАФ Cheryl Strayed
тАЬуАМAll of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room aloneуАНтАЭ
тАФ Blaise Pascal
тАЬуАМThe place where we are right is hard and trampled like a yard but doubts and loves dig up the world like a mole a plowуАНтАЭ
тАФ Yehuda Amichai
тАЬуАМYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Carl Jung
тАЬуАМOur lives are filled with noise and activity but the deepest truth is born in silenceуАНтАЭ
тАФ Wayne Muller
тАЬуАМAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be wellуАНтАЭ
тАФ Julian of Norwich
тАЬуАМHe who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Gautama Buddha
тАЬуАМOn the last day of the world I would want to plant a treeуАНтАЭ
тАФ W.S. Merwin
тАЬуАМThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestlyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Pema Chodron
тАЬуАМThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Marcel Proust
тАЬуАМIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journeyуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМA talent is formed in stillness a character in the world stream of lifeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
тАЬуАМIn our lives we will inevitably face painful experiences but the suffering that accompanies them is optionalуАНтАЭ
тАФ Tara Brach
тАЬуАМI am quite comfortable alone with my thoughts and my purposeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Abraham Lincoln
тАЬуАМSolitude is a way of waiting for the inexpressible and the unknowable to make itself feltуАНтАЭ
тАФ Sadhguru
тАЬуАМOnce you fall into a reflective life you discover how little you needуАНтАЭ
тАФ Virginia Woolf
тАЬуАМLet me not look for allies in lifes battlefield but to my own strength aloneуАНтАЭ
тАФ Rabindranath Tagore
тАЬуАМSolitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous тАФ to poetry.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Thomas Mann
тАЬуАМWilderness is the place where we learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable aloneуАНтАЭ
тАФ Brene Brown
тАЬуАМSilence is the language of God all else is poor translationуАНтАЭ
тАФ Thomas Keating
тАЬуАМYour task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against itуАНтАЭ
тАФ Rumi
тАЬуАМEvery day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moonуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ikkyu
тАЬуАМI never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Henry David Thoreau
тАЬуАМKnowing others is intelligence but knowing yourself is true wisdomуАНтАЭ
тАФ Lao Tzu
тАЬуАМThe winds of grace blow all the time all we need to do is set our sailsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ramakrishna
тАЬуАМSolitude shows us the way back to our essential beauty which waits for us under our covering of opinions and attitudesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Roger Housden
тАЬуАМPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from usуАНтАЭ
тАФ Rainer Maria Rilke
тАЬуАМGo back and pick up what you have left behind your creative life your ideas your dreams your hopes your original natureуАНтАЭ
тАФ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
тАЬуАМSilence is about getting inside what you are doing being in the world not just observing it from outsideуАНтАЭ
тАФ Erling Kagge
тАЬуАМYou must understand the whole of life not just one little part of it that is why you must read that is why you must look at the skies that is why you must sing and danceуАНтАЭ
тАФ J. Krishnamurti
тАЬуАМBe melting snow wash yourself of yourselfуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it aloneуАНтАЭ
тАФ Alan Watts
тАЬуАМThe quieter you become the more you can hearуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ram Dass
тАЬуАМSilence is not about hearing nothing silence is about hearing everything at onceуАНтАЭ
тАФ Cynthia Bourgeault
тАЬуАМWhen the mind is free from all conditions it is called basic mindуАНтАЭ
тАФ Joshu
тАЬуАМNothing in all creation is so like God as stillnessуАНтАЭ
тАФ Meister Eckhart
тАЬуАМIn order to understand the world one has to turn away from it on occasionуАНтАЭ
тАФ Albert Camus
тАЬуАМI exist as I am and that is enough in the grand solitude of beingуАНтАЭ
тАФ Walt Whitman
тАЬуАМIn the middle of the forest there is an unexpected clearing which can only be found by those who have gotten lostуАНтАЭ
тАФ Tomas Transtromer
тАЬуАМThe small man builds cages for everyone he knows while the sage who has to duck his head when the moon is low keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisonersуАНтАЭ
тАФ Hafiz
тАЬуАМYou do not need to leave your room to discover the worldуАНтАЭ
тАФ Franz Kafka
тАЬуАМTo be alone with your own thoughts is a luxury that most cannot affordуАНтАЭ
тАФ Michael Harris
тАЬуАМYou are the sky everything else is just the weatherуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIf you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peaceуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ajahn Chah
тАЬуАМSolitude is the place of purification.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Martin Luther
тАЬуАМBefore you know what kindness really is you must lose thingsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Naomi Shihab Nye
тАЬуАМWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through in its cocoonуАНтАЭ
тАФ Maya Angelou
тАЬуАМThat is what learning is you suddenly understand something that you have understood all your life but in a new wayуАНтАЭ
тАФ Doris Lessing
тАЬуАМIn silence and stillness a devout soul makes progress and learns the hidden things of the scripturesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Thomas a Kempis
тАЬуАМBe content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to youуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe person who has not learned to be alone is a person who does not know themselves.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWhat a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Ellen Burstyn
тАЬуАМAloneness is not loneliness loneliness is a negative state aloneness is positive aloneness is fullуАНтАЭ
тАФ Osho
тАЬуАМLet the one who cannot be alone beware of communityуАНтАЭ
тАФ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
тАЬуАМA man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe root of joy is gratefulness it is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyfulуАНтАЭ
тАФ David Steindl-Rast
тАЬуАМDare to declare who you are it is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speechуАНтАЭ
тАФ Hildegard of Bingen
тАЬуАМIn a field I am the absence of field this is always the case wherever I am I am what is missingуАНтАЭ
тАФ Mark Strand
тАЬуАМIn silence there is eloquence stop weaving and see how the pattern improvesуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМHe who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWhere should the swordsman fix his mind nowhere let the body and limbs work themselves out according to a discipline they have undergoneуАНтАЭ
тАФ Takuan Soho
тАЬуАМHappiness is not in objects nor in events nor in experiences it is in usуАНтАЭ
тАФ Francis Lucille
тАЬуАМIn our natural state we are glorious beings in the world of illusion we are lost and imprisoned slaves to our appetites and our will to false powerуАНтАЭ
тАФ Marianne Williamson
тАЬуАМThe flower does not dream of the bee it blossoms and the bee comesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Mark Nepo
тАЬуАМSettle into solitude as if it were the one thing in the world you know how to do.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМNot thinking about anything is Zen once you know this walking sitting or lying down everything you do is ZenуАНтАЭ
тАФ Bodhidharma
тАЬуАМThe time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayerуАНтАЭ
тАФ Brother Lawrence
тАЬуАМLoneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of selfуАНтАЭ
тАФ May Sarton
тАЬуАМNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know in our solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including youуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anne Lamott
тАЬуАМI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSolitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others but rather a practice of mindful presenceуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWe do not come into this world we come out of it as leaves from a tree as the ocean waves the universe peoplesуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМEver since happiness heard your name it has been running through the streets trying to find youуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe bud stands for all things even for those things that dont flowerуАНтАЭ
тАФ Galway Kinnell
тАЬуАМLet him who cannot be alone beware of community let him who is not in community beware of being aloneуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am I am I amуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМTry to praise the mutilated worldуАНтАЭ
тАФ Adam Zagajewski
тАЬуАМSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itselfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Matsuo Basho
тАЬуАМWhat do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each otherуАНтАЭ
тАФ George Eliot
тАЬуАМIt is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste much of it in noiseуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIf you are lonely when you are alone you are in bad companyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jean-Paul Sartre
тАЬуАМIn the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summerуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМI dwell in possibilityуАНтАЭ
тАФ Emily Dickinson
тАЬуАМIn the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let goуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jack Kornfield
тАЬуАМInhabited space transcends geometrical spaceуАНтАЭ
тАФ Gaston Bachelard
тАЬуАМHappiness is a skill that can be trained and solitude is one of its training groundsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Matthieu Ricard
тАЬуАМTo walk in beauty means to walk with gratitude and appreciation for the natural worldуАНтАЭ
тАФ Angeles Arrien
тАЬуАМSolitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.уАНтАЭ
тАФ James Russell Lowell
тАЬуАМSolitude is the place of purificationуАНтАЭ
тАФ Martin Buber
тАЬуАМI ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slideуАНтАЭ
тАФ Billy Collins
тАЬуАМThe thief left it behind the moon at my windowуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ryokan
тАЬуАМI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Emily Bront├л
тАЬуАМGo sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everythingуАНтАЭ
тАФ Desert Fathers
тАЬуАМThere is no savor more sweet more salt than to be glad to be what woman and who myself I amуАНтАЭ
тАФ Denise Levertov
тАЬуАМI have learned how faces fall how terror peers from lowered eyesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anna Akhmatova
тАЬуАМSilence is essential for deep transformation to take placeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Thich Nhat Hanh
тАЬуАМAre you looking for me I am in the next seat my shoulder is against yoursуАНтАЭ
тАФ Kabir
тАЬуАМIn the dark night of the soul bright flows the river of GodуАНтАЭ
тАФ John of the Cross
тАЬуАМTo write poetry one must bring full attention to the taskуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jane Hirshfield
тАЬуАМWhen you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourself when you lose touch with yourself you lose yourself in the worldуАНтАЭ
тАФ Eckhart Tolle
тАЬуАМHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness found in solitary acceptanceуАНтАЭ
тАФ Zhuangzi
тАЬуАМThe person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week, has missed life's greatest serenity.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Lin Yutang
тАЬуАМThe little things they are not littleуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jon Kabat-Zinn
тАЬуАМTrue silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.уАНтАЭ
тАФ William Penn
тАЬуАМSolitude is the audience-chamber of God.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Walter Savage Landor
тАЬуАМIn silence and in quiet the devout soul advances and learns the hidden meaningsуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe separate self is an intermittent experience awareness is the ever-present backgroundуАНтАЭ
тАФ Rupert Spira
тАЬуАМLanguage has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and solitude to express the gloryуАНтАЭ
тАФ Paul Tillich
тАЬуАМWhen you lose touch with inner stillness you lose touch with yourselfуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWhenever you are creating beauty around you you are restoring your own soulуАНтАЭ
тАФ Alice Walker
тАЬуАМWithin you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourselfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Hermann Hesse
тАЬуАМSolitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiencesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Cal Newport
тАЬуАМSilence is the true teaching it is the perfect teaching it is suited only for the most advanced seekerуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ramana Maharshi
тАЬуАМNowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soulуАНтАЭ
тАФ Marcus Aurelius
тАЬуАМAloneness is a flower a lotus blooming in your heartуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSeclusion is the price of greatness.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Paramahansa Yogananda
тАЬуАМThe person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Francis Philip Frangipane
тАЬуАМEverything is a passing show learn to enjoy the showуАНтАЭ
тАФ Robert Adams
тАЬуАМThe peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of griefуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМAppear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend march swiftly to places where you are not expectedуАНтАЭ
тАФ Sun Tzu
тАЬуАМRetire into yourself for the rational principle that rules has this nature: to be content with itselfуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSolitude is that human situation in which I keep myself companyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Hannah Arendt
тАЬуАМYour unborn mind is not something you learned how to have you were born with itуАНтАЭ
тАФ Bankei
тАЬуАМThe soul is healed by being with children and by being in solitude with ones own thoughtsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Fyodor Dostoevsky
тАЬуАМI sometimes think I enjoy suffering but the truth is I would like the sky to be clear yet I also love clouds and rainуАНтАЭ
тАФ Fernando Pessoa
тАЬуАМA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fictionуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are requiredуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anthony Storr
тАЬуАМSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Octavio Paz
тАЬуАМFor oft when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАФ William Wordsworth
тАЬуАМAnd stand together yet not too near together for the pillars of the temple stand apart and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadowуАНтАЭ
тАФ Kahlil Gibran
тАЬуАМThe moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious worldуАНтАЭ
тАФ Henry Miller
тАЬуАМA wandering mind is a sign that something is wrong with our prayerуАНтАЭ
тАФ Evagrius Ponticus
тАЬуАМAn honorable human relationship is one in which two people have the right to use the word loveуАНтАЭ
тАФ Adrienne Rich
тАЬуАМIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshedуАНтАЭ
тАФ Khalil Gibran
тАЬуАМWe do not think ourselves into new ways of living we live ourselves into new ways of thinkingуАНтАЭ
тАФ Richard Rohr
тАЬуАМIt is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew and in that there is joyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jiddu Krishnamurti
тАЬуАМBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselvesуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМYou need not leave your room remain sitting at your table and listen do not even listen simply wait be quiet still and solitary the world will freely offer itself to youуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМYour hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nightsуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThere is nothing like staying at home for real comfortуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jane Austen
тАЬуАМWithin each of us there is a silence a silence as vast as a universe we are afraid of it and we long for itуАНтАЭ
тАФ Gunilla Norris
тАЬуАМI go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out and I say oh I am miserable what shall I do and the sea says in its lovely voice excuse me I have work to doуАНтАЭ
тАФ Mary Oliver
тАЬуАМYou wanna fly you got to give up the stuff that weighs you downуАНтАЭ
тАФ Toni Morrison
тАЬуАМI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees but first I must learn what spring does aloneуАНтАЭ
тАФ Pablo Neruda
тАЬуАМDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise but seek what they sought in solitary contemplationуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМA man can be himself only so long as he is aloneуАНтАЭ
тАФ Schopenhauer
тАЬуАМMy imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Patricia Highsmith
тАЬуАМThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in stormуАНтАЭ
тАФ Willa Cather
тАЬуАМI celebrate myself and sing myselfуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSolitude matters and for some people it is the air that they breatheуАНтАЭ
тАФ Susan Cain
тАЬуАМWhen you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades and your image of the world fades and your ideas of others fade what is left a luminous empty awarenessуАНтАЭ
тАФ Adyashanti
тАЬуАМSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition man is the only being who knows he is aloneуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneselfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Montaigne
тАЬуАМSettle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourselfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Teresa of Avila
тАЬуАМA happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can liveуАНтАЭ
тАФ Bertrand Russell
тАЬуАМI have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after in the silence of my soulуАНтАЭ
тАФ Emily Bronte
тАЬуАМIn solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of thingsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Thomas Merton
тАЬуАМSometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for youуАНтАЭ
тАФ David Whyte
тАЬуАМIn a day when you dont come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong pathуАНтАЭ
тАФ Vivekananda
тАЬуАМBe regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your workуАНтАЭ
тАФ Gustave Flaubert
тАЬуАМSettle into solitude like a tree in the midst of a vast plain тАФ rooted, silent, and alive.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIn solitude we find that our life is not diminished but expandedуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМAll that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is changeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Octavia Butler
тАЬуАМThe great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ralph Waldo Emerson
тАЬуАМI have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian a Hindu a Muslim a Buddhist a JewуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWhen one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others tooуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
тАЬуАМSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human conditionуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSolitude is the companion of greatness and the nurse of geniusуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSilence is a true friend who never betraysуАНтАЭ
тАФ Confucius
тАЬуАМThings wont just lean together and create what we need to liveуАНтАЭ
тАФ Kay Ryan
тАЬуАМThe only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliatedуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ted Hughes
тАЬуАМWhen you know who you are everything else falls into placeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jean Klein
тАЬуАМTo study the Buddha Way is to study the self to study the self is to forget the selfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Dogen
тАЬуАМWe have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one best discovered aloneуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSettle into solitude as if it were an old friend.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mindуАНтАЭ
тАФ Albert Einstein
тАЬуАМSettle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Teresa of ├Бvila
тАЬуАМThe supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realizationуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anandamayi Ma
тАЬуАМIn the quiet hours of reflection we find the truest version of ourselvesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Albert Schweitzer
тАЬуАМWhen you cease to fear your solitude a new creativity awakens in youуАНтАЭ
тАФ John O Donohue
тАЬуАМThe best portion of a good life is the little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love done in quietуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМBe alone and watch what happens when you are alone and totally accepting of your alonenessуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWhat is poetry which does not save nations or peopleуАНтАЭ
тАФ Czeslaw Milosz
тАЬуАМAll life is yogaуАНтАЭ
тАФ Sri Aurobindo
тАЬуАМWithout great solitude no serious work is possible.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Pablo Picasso
тАЬуАМThe only journey is the one withinуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМBe alone that is the secret of invention be alone that is when ideas are bornуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМStop seeking and you will find what you are looking forуАНтАЭ
тАФ Papaji
тАЬуАМKnowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom mastering others is strength mastering yourself is true powerуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe quieter you become the more you can hear the universe speakingуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIn the stillness of the night I have walked with you and we have spoken in the silence of our heartsуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМI have become my own version of an optimist if I cant make it through one door I will go through another or I will make a doorуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWe write to taste life twice in the moment and in retrospectуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anais Nin
тАЬуАМWe live in capitalism its power seems inescapable so did the divine right of kings any human power can be resisted and changed by human beingsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ursula K. Le Guin
тАЬуАМThe sole cause of human unhappiness is that people do not know how to sit quietly in a roomуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIn the darkness two shadows reaching through the hopeless heavy dusk their hands met and light spilled in a flood like a survey of the sunуАНтАЭ
тАФ Madeline Miller
тАЬуАМAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosityуАНтАЭ
тАФ Simone Weil
тАЬуАМThe great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space free from the outside pressures.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Marya Mannes
тАЬуАМThe deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once and my conviction is to report that dialogueуАНтАЭ
тАФ Stanley Kunitz
тАЬуАМThe most common form of despair is not being who you areуАНтАЭ
тАФ Soren Kierkegaard
тАЬуАМIt is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinion it is easy in solitude to live after our own but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my shipуАНтАЭ
тАФ Louisa May Alcott
тАЬуАМIf you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМTo go in the dark with a light is to know the light to know the dark go dark go without sight and find that the dark too blooms and singsуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМAttention is the beginning of devotionуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe quieter you become the more you can hear the whispers of your own soulуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМDont ask yourself what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come aliveуАНтАЭ
тАФ Howard Thurman
тАЬуАМInside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making shipsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Charles Simic
тАЬуАМIf you have the words there is always a chance that you will find the wayуАНтАЭ
тАФ Seamus Heaney
тАЬуАМOnce you begin to recognize the divine image in yourself you begin to see it everywhereуАНтАЭ
тАФ Mooji
тАЬуАМWhen hungry eat when tired sleep fools may laugh at me but wise men will know what I meanуАНтАЭ
тАФ Linji
тАЬуАМWe must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing a wakefulness that is the birthright of us allуАНтАЭ
тАФ Plotinus
тАЬуАМLanguage has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Aristotle
тАЬуАМThe best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Thomas Edison
тАЬуАМThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Lord Byron
тАЬуАМWhen we have nothing to cling to as our own we can even welcome the unknownуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThere are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects itуАНтАЭ
тАФ Edith Wharton
тАЬуАМThe darkness around us is deepуАНтАЭ
тАФ Robert Bly
тАЬуАМI have studied the science of departuresуАНтАЭ
тАФ Osip Mandelstam
тАЬуАМHappiness is the absence of the striving for happinessуАНтАЭ
тАФ Chuang Tzu
тАЬуАМWhat I am pointing to is the possibility of complete and total peace right here right now regardless of any circumstances internal or externalуАНтАЭ
тАФ Gangaji
тАЬуАМJust to be is a blessing just to live is holyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Abraham Joshua Heschel
тАЬуАМWalking along dripping wet no umbrellaуАНтАЭ
тАФ Santoka Taneda
тАЬуАМWhereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silentуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ludwig Wittgenstein
тАЬуАМThe individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Friedrich Nietzsche
тАЬуАМThe thoughtful soul to solitude retires.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Omar Khayyam
тАЬуАМFrom blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the roadуАНтАЭ
тАФ Li-Young Lee
тАЬуАМSilence is not the absence of sound but the absence of selfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anthony de Mello
тАЬуАМBeware the barrenness of a busy life for true richness comes from withinуАНтАЭ
тАФ Socrates
тАЬуАМKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escapeуАНтАЭ
тАФ bell hooks
тАЬуАМPeople neglect the root and seek the branchesуАНтАЭ
тАФ Huang Po
тАЬуАМThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Aldous Huxley
тАЬуАМWisdom tells me I am nothing love tells me I am everything between the two my life flowsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Nisargadatta Maharaj
тАЬуАМIn every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks in solitary communionуАНтАЭ
тАФ John Muir
тАЬуАМOne of the lovely things about solitude is that it can happen in the middle of a crowdуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМDetached observer just watching the moon I belong to the autumn nightуАНтАЭ
тАФ Saigyo
тАЬуАМNo one is free who is not master of himself and mastery begins in solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Epictetus
тАЬуАМIf you wish to be a writer writeуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a wellуАНтАЭ
тАФ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
тАЬуАМSilence is essential we need silence just as much as we need air just as much as plants need lightуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Henrik Ibsen
тАЬуАМThe time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door in your own mirrorуАНтАЭ
тАФ Derek Walcott
тАЬуАМSolitude was my only consolation deep dark deathlike solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАФ Mary Shelley
тАЬуАМWhen you do something you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourselfуАНтАЭ
тАФ Shunryu Suzuki
тАЬуАМThe strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patienceуАНтАЭ
тАФ Leo Tolstoy
тАЬуАМNothing is harder to do than nothingуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jenny Odell
тАЬуАМIn an age of speed I began to think nothing could be more invigorating than going slow in an age of distraction nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attentionуАНтАЭ
тАФ Pico Iyer
тАЬуАМSilence is a place of freedomуАНтАЭ
тАФ Anne D. LeClaire
тАЬуАМSolitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Thomas De Quincey
тАЬуАМWhat is most personal is most universalуАНтАЭ
тАФ Carl Rogers
тАЬуАМThe art of losing isnt hard to masterуАНтАЭ
тАФ Elizabeth Bishop
тАЬуАМWandering is the activity of the child the passion of the genius it is the discovery of the self it is the artist walkingуАНтАЭ
тАФ Rebecca Solnit
тАЬуАМI love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or prideуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМStillness is your essential nature what is stillness it is the inner space in which the words on this page are being perceivedуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМMeditation is the ultimate mobile device you can use it anywhere anytime unobtrusivelyуАНтАЭ
тАФ Sharon Salzberg
тАЬуАМWithin you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any timeуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМOne day I will find the right words and they will be simpleуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jack Kerouac
тАЬуАМI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry treesуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМDo not be afraid of silence do not be afraid of aloneness just sit and the jewels of peace and happiness will come to youуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ajahn Brahm
тАЬуАМA room without books is like a body without a soul and solitude without reflection is mere emptinessуАНтАЭ
тАФ Cicero
тАЬуАМWe do not grow absolutely chronologically we grow sometimes in one dimension and not in anotherуАНтАЭ
тАФ Ana├пs Nin
тАЬуАМTalk to yourself like you would to someone you loveуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was a giftуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМAlertness is the hidden discipline of familiarityуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIn solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Laurence Sterne
тАЬуАМOne can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМI hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people that each should stand guard over the solitude of the otherуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМWe look at the world once in childhood the rest is memoryуАНтАЭ
тАФ Louise Gluck
тАЬуАМWe must unlearn the constellations to see the starsуАНтАЭ
тАФ Jack Gilbert
тАЬуАМThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.уАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМIf you want a place to rest Cold Mountain is good white clouds settle on the rocky peaksуАНтАЭ
тАФ Han Shan
тАЬуАМThe mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМI never found a companion that was so companionable as solitudeуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМSilence is a source of great strengthуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМOne is not born free but becomes free through solitary reflectionуАНтАЭ
тАФ Simone de Beauvoir
тАЬуАМYou do not have to be good you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repentingуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМGo out into the solitude and close the door behind thee. Let the manifold world that makes thee dizzy vanish from thy sight.уАНтАЭ
тАФ Mechthild of Magdeburg
тАЬуАМI am awfully greedy I want everything from life I want to be a woman and to be a man to have many friends and to have lonelinessуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМI am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent willуАНтАЭ
тАФ Charlotte Bronte
тАЬуАМBe still and heal let the forest take away your worriesуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThe function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who praysуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМThere is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter everything is within everything exists nowhere elseуАНтАЭ
тАФ Miyamoto Musashi
тАЬуАМLanguage has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being aloneуАНтАЭ
тАЬуАМOne can never have enough socks a good pair of thick winter socks can bring one closer to that simple peace of solitudeуАНтАЭ
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