Solitude Quotes - Page 17

• Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Essentials, Ministry

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• Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Children, Space

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• A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

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• Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Yoga, Mean

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• Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hard Times, Time Keeping, Community

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• For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Thinking, Luxury

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• But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

  Francis Bacon

  True Friend, Real, World

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.47, 谷月社

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• He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

  Francis Bacon

  Crazy, Animal, Mad

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• Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

  Sydney Smith

  Littles, Cherish, Virtue

  Sydney Smith (1854). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 by the Late Rev. Sydney Smith, M.A”, p.348

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• Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Happiness, Light, Heaven

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• Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

  John Mayer

  Hate, Traveling Alone, Scared

  Song: The Age of Worry, Album: Born and Raised, 2012

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• It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

  Jessamyn West

  Easy, Born, Ruthless

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

  Martha Beck

  Individuality, Persons, Mines

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• Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mistake, Quiet, Trouble

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• Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

  William Drummond

  Eternal Love, World, Shady

  William Drummond (1856). “The Poetical Works”, p.85

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• Virtuous men alone possess friends.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Lonely, Men

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.261

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• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  Bob Marshall

  Passion, Journey, Civilization

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• And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Crowds, Facts, Bigs

  "The Shape" by Dejan Stojanovic, Gramatik, Podgorica, "The Shape and Society", (p. 19), 2000.

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• 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Alone Man, Vanity

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

  Lord Byron

  Military, Carnage

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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• In solitude, when we are least alone.

  Lord Byron

  "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage". Poem by Lord Byron, Canto III, Stanza 90, 1816.

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• This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

  Lord Byron

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• Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

  Lord Byron

  Other Worlds, Sorrow, Vision

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• Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

  Wade Davis

  Understanding, Risk, Discomfort

  Wade Davis (2010). “The Serpent and the Rainbow”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Transgression is a quest for solitude

  Adam Phillips

  Quests, Transgression

  Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.85, Penguin UK

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