Excerpts of Citations
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Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, ...
~Hugh B. Brown
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~Edward Gibbon
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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
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Solitude is the ally of sorrow as well as a companion of spiritual exaltation.
~Kahlil Gibran
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
~Andre Maurois
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Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding...
~George Eliot
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Ten Spiritual Tonics 1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life. 2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul. 3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind. 4. Accept your limitations...
~Abraham L. Feinberg
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
~Wayne Dyer
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one cannot lodge in 'if.'
~Mevlana Rumi
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to chat is pain.
~Stacy Broadbent
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That may just be an accident, but it's a happy accident anyway. I love them.
~Hugh Nibley
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If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
~Buddha
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
~Mevlana Rumi