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quotes by topic Solitude

" Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. "

Barbara De Angelis

Moments , Self , Balance , Women , Solitude

" It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared. "

Effort , Important , Solitude

" Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world. "

Oswald Chambers

Today , Done , Solitude

" The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. "

Happiness , Lonely , Solitude

" I want my own will, and I wantsimply to be with my will,as it goes toward action.And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,when something is coming near,I want to be with those who knowsecret things or else alone...I want to unfold.I don‚Äôt want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry , Solitude

" being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. "

Charles Bukowski

Solitude , loneliness

" Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. "

Heart , Solitude

" We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: ‚ÄúHe is the one.‚Äù But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road. "

Vincent Van Gogh

Art , Solitude