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🌙 Solitude
“Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity”
Solitary alertness brings fresh awareness to the familiar.
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”
— David Whyte
“The conversational nature of reality means we can never just command our way through life we must be willing to be changed by what we find”
“The conversational nature of reality means we cannot simply will everything we want into being”
“Sometimes 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 you”
“The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest it is wholeheartedness born of compassion”
“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
