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SOLITUDE
The
best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been
done in turmoil.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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I
live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but
delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert
Einstein
The
monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the
creative mind.
-- Albert
Einstein
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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 intellectual
life, may serve for the whole distinction between
greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because
you will always find those who think they know what
is your duty better than you know it. 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
person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Respect
the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not
on his solitude.”
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
needs no words -
it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
-- Dag
Hammarskjold
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Solitude
is independence. - Hermann Hesse
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The
more powerful and original a mind, the more it will
incline towards the religion of solitude.
~ Aldous
Huxley |
Friendship
arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of
the companions discover that they have in common some
insight or interest or even taste which the others do
not share and which, till that moment, each believed
to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical
expression of opening Friendship would be something
like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
. . . . It is when two such person discover one another,
when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate
fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and
elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then
that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together
in an immense solitude.
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Solitude
is the profoundest fact of the human condition.
Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
-- Octavio Paz
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Go
confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.
As
you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will
be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
I
had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two
for friendship,
three for society. -- Henry
David Thoreau
I
have never found a companion that was so companionable
as solitude.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
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Solitude
has its own very strange beauty to it.
-- Liv
Tyler
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection.
Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when
you are given true affection there will be no opposition
between interior solitude and friendship, quite the
reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you
will recognize it.
-- Simone
Weil
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