#lone

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#another #destiny #find #life #love

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#activities #begin #beyond #deepest #desire

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ↗

— Henry Miller

#alone #always #artist #loneliness #needs

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#alone #cave #courage #doubtful #escort

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#fascism #great #lives #our #our lives

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#alone #any #assistants #case #creates

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#alone #always #being #corners #head

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#could #doing #else #entertainment #entertainment industry

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#eating #lonely #man #much #requires

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#because #best #best way #continues #earth