#solitude

Let us not be bored ↗

— Joe Buberger

#gaining-wisdom #growing-up #solitude #think #wise

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#solitude #life

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#shows #society #solitude #us

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#being #book #entire #finally #getting

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. ↗

— May Sarton

#poverty #richness #self #solitude

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#danger #him #idleness #intercourse #into

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#laws #lives #make #may #own

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

#bare #bloom #creative #creativity #cultivate

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir was alive it was easy to veil the truth: that they were not a family-not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#solitude #family