#alone

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. ↗

— Rosa Parks

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#character #cultivated #happiness #like #moment

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#anyone #house #how #lived #living

Blood alone moves the wheels of history. ↗

— Martin Luther

#blood #history #moves #wheels

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.' ↗

— Demetri Martin

#cologne #i #i think #interesting #rhymes

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ↗

— St. Jerome

#afraid #alone #good #night #sleep

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. ↗

— Michelangelo

#cannot #i #live #paint #patrons

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#alone #back #conversations #emotionally #family

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. ↗

— John Irving

#any #being #being alone #better #capacity

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ↗

— Isocrates

#our #possessions #wisdom