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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
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Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
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
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Thank you, gentlemen. Someday I will repay you,
unless of course I can't find you, or if I forget.
- the movie Shrek 2
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I find that I can't accept what is happening,
I turn my attention to accepting my non-acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you find peace within yourself,
you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
- Peace Pilgrim
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
I find motivation and inspiration and hope in information.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that to find comfort, relax into the arms of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Let everyone try and find that
as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well-being is making its way to you at all times.
If you will relax and find a way to allow it,
it will be your experience.
- Abraham (Esther Hicks)
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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