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- Solitude -
Hermitary.com has many interesting articles about
hermits and solitude. Here are links to two of them.
Taoism: hermit philosophy
Silence in Quaker Tradition
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Hermitary.com has many interesting articles about
hermits and solitude. Here are links to two of them.
Taoism: hermit philosophy
Silence in Quaker Tradition
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- Quotes about Solitude -
(49 quotes)
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One of the greatest necessities in America
is to discover creative solitude.
- Carl Sandburg
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The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
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He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.
- Psalms 23:2
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The more powerful and original a mind,
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I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony
of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
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(49 quotes)
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One of the greatest necessities in America
is to discover creative solitude.
- Carl Sandburg
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The best thinking has been done in solitude.
- Thomas Alva Edison
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Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
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He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.
- Psalms 23:2
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- Euripides (BC 480-BC 406)---
The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley
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If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
- Jules Renard (1864-1910) French writer
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- Jules Renard (1864-1910) French writer
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Solitude is as needed to the imagination
as society is wholesome to the character.
- James Russell Lowell
(1819-1891) American poet, critic and editor.as society is wholesome to the character.
- James Russell Lowell
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I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony
of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
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Go away, I'm all right!
- H. G. Wells
- H. G. Wells
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Remember what peace there may be in silence.
- Max Eiirmann
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An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
and in that silence we the tempest fear.
- John Dryden
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Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
- Laurence Sterne
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude
character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Johann von Goethe
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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than
mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
- William Powell
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To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
- Deepak Chopra
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One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict
- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
- Percival
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The great omission in American life is solitude. . .
that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures,
which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
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The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it -
had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
- Robert Cecil
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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
- Austin O'Malley
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Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
- Latin Proverb
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There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
- Euripides
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You do not need to 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 you to be unmasked,
it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka
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For the first time, your mind is quiet enough to hear me.
- Kosh
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I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world
and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet
and tranquillity of thy life.
- Jeremy Taylor
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Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
- Hans Margolius
---
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life
throughout its length: a quite conscience.
- Euripides
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...
spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity
to renew itself and create order.
- Susan Taylor
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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
- Erica Jong
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
- Agatha Christie
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship.
Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,
his friends are everything.
- Willa Cather
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- In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage
of living with someone who can think.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you.
- Harold Bloom
---
It is better to live alone in the desert,
than with a crabby, complaining wife.
Proverbs 21:19
---
Writing is a solitary occupation.
Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer.
He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage
if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
- Jessamyn West
---
Loneliness is the poverty of self;
solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
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I love people. I love my family, my children . . .
but inside myself is a place where I live all alone
and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
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It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness
with which I can truly love my brothers.
The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them….
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are,
not for what they say.
- Thomas Merton
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Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm,
and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius.
In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.
- Isaac D'Israeli
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There is a society in the deepest solitude.
- Isaac D'Israeli
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So vain is the belief that the sequestered path has fewest flowers.
- Thomas Doubleday
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Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Though solitary, who is not alone,
But doth converse with that eternal love.
- William Drummond
---
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
- Thomas Gray
---
A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude
without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
---
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
- Edward Gibbon
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Thanks for visiting,
have a groovy green day!
- Max Eiirmann
---
An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
and in that silence we the tempest fear.
- John Dryden
---
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
- Laurence Sterne
---
Talents are best nurtured in solitude
character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Johann von Goethe
---
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than
mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
- William Powell
---
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
- Deepak Chopra
---
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict
- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
- Percival
---
The great omission in American life is solitude. . .
that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures,
which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
---
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it -
had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
---
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
- Robert Cecil
---
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
- Austin O'Malley
---
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
- Latin Proverb
---
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
---
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
- Euripides
---
You do not need to 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 you to be unmasked,
it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka
---
For the first time, your mind is quiet enough to hear me.
- Kosh
---
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world
and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
---
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet
and tranquillity of thy life.
- Jeremy Taylor
---
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
- Hans Margolius
---
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life
throughout its length: a quite conscience.
- Euripides
---
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...
spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity
to renew itself and create order.
- Susan Taylor
---
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
- Erica Jong
---
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
- Agatha Christie
---
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship.
Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,
his friends are everything.
- Willa Cather
---
- In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage
of living with someone who can think.
- Henry David Thoreau
---
Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you.
- Harold Bloom
---
It is better to live alone in the desert,
than with a crabby, complaining wife.
Proverbs 21:19
---
Writing is a solitary occupation.
Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer.
He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage
if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
- Jessamyn West
---
Loneliness is the poverty of self;
solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
---
I love people. I love my family, my children . . .
but inside myself is a place where I live all alone
and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
---
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness
with which I can truly love my brothers.
The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them….
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are,
not for what they say.
- Thomas Merton
---
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm,
and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius.
In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to.
- Isaac D'Israeli
---
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
- Isaac D'Israeli
---
So vain is the belief that the sequestered path has fewest flowers.
- Thomas Doubleday
---
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Though solitary, who is not alone,
But doth converse with that eternal love.
- William Drummond
---
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
- Thomas Gray
---
A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude
without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
---
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was never less alone than when by myself.
- Edward Gibbon
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Thanks for visiting,
have a groovy green day!