Quotes
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
~ Lord Byron
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
~ Albert Einstein
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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.~ Buddha -
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho
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As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
~ Buddha
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Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.~ Buddha -
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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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, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.
~ 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. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our 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
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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 feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
~ 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 . . . 5. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy. 6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition. 7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves. 8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views. 9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence. 10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.
~ 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
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More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
~ Buddha