Tag: solitude
8 quotes
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Nowhere can man find retirement more peaceful and untroubled than in his own soul.
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The most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his…
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Solitude… is what sustains me and protects me from my mind. It renders me fully present. I am desert. I am mountains. I am Great Salt Lake. There are other languages being spoken by wind, water, and wings. There are other lives to consider:…
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Solitude, a simple den, A piece of paper and a pen, A cup of tea, a piece of toast. A window and the holy ghost. Some calm, a table and a chair; The mind is free, the soul is bare. There's love to make and life to hold. The ancient tiny thread…
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Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back. Sustained aloneness brings you to a tipping point where the pendulum of life returns you to others.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those…
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Ciúnas Gan Uaigneas
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Smart people spend time alone. They don't fill their days with appointments from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., as many politicians and executives do. Great science does not emerge from hard logic and grinding hours. It comes from the mysterious resources of…