“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, books.google.caTagged: Solitude, Alone, Introversion, INFP, Soul
“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”— Oscar Wilde, cmgww.comTagged: Oscar Wilde Quotes, Alone, Relationships Ending
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Alone, Independence
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”— Anne Frank, amazon.comTagged: Anne Frank, Alone, Lonely, Love, God
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”— Bell Hooks, amazon.comTagged: Love, Alone, Introversion, Introspection, Being Happy Alone
“Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Solitude, Silence
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”— Susan Cain, amazon.comTagged: Introvert, Alone, Perspective
“Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive for any length of time, no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“Take a walk in the woods (alone), And there you will find all of the questions That remain unanswered in your mind.”— Kaitlyn Dunagan, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Nature, Nature Is A Remedy, Awe Of Nature, positive, Healing
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”— Henry Miller, amazon.comTagged: Solitude, Alone, Contemplation
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.comTagged: Solitude, Alone, Independence, Reflection, Introversion
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if eve…”— Eve Ensler, amazon.comTagged: Love, Life, Solitude, travel, Adventure
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, t…”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.comTagged: Solitude, Alone
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”— ― Michel de Montaigne, amazon.comTagged: Solitude, Self-Reliance, Independence