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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything (Solitude Quotes)
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: The aims of friendship, religion, science, and art (Solitude Quotes)
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration (Solitude Quotes)
And, in the warm silence, in the peaceful solitude of the study, Clotilde smiled down at the baby who was still sucking - his little arm in the air, pointing upwards, a symbol of hope and life (Solitude Quotes)
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd (Solitude Quotes)
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away (Solitude Quotes)
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden (Solitude Quotes)
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines (Solitude Quotes)
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again (Solitude Quotes)
I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky (Solitude Quotes)
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying (Solitude Quotes)
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future (Solitude Quotes)
Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard (Solitude Quotes)
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude (Solitude Quotes)
Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one (Solitude Quotes)
In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude (Solitude Quotes)
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence (Solitude Quotes)
It 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 (Solitude Quotes)
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction (Solitude Quotes)
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve (Solitude Quotes)
They simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth? (Solitude Quotes)
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude (Solitude Quotes)
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally (Solitude Quotes)
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude (Solitude Quotes)
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister (Solitude Quotes)
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude (Solitude Quotes)
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead (Solitude Quotes)
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared (Solitude Quotes)
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul (Solitude Quotes)
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order (Solitude Quotes)