#alone

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. ↗

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#before #beyond #book #compare #converse

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#being #born #development #does #drop

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#am #bodily #done #eating #functions

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#boy #company #completely #grown #grown man

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#alone #climb #heights #i #may

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#been #i #kind #lazy #over

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient. ↗

— Susan Rice

#cannot #convenient #go #simply

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job. ↗