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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely
when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau
I love to be alone.
I never found the companion
that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
I feel the same way about solitude as some people
feel about the blessing of the church.
It's the light of grace for me.
I never close my door behind me without the awareness
that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
- Peter Hoeg
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
Writing is a dance with the uncertainties of language.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
I personally think we developed language
because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
A riot is, at bottom, the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Use what language you will,
you can never say anything but what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw,
hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
Relevant detail, couched in concrete,
colorful language, is the best way
to recreate the incident as it happened
and to picture it for the audience.
- Dale Carnegie
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
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