949 private quotes tagged alone

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.” — Epictetus

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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” — Thomas Browne

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“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.” — Paul Tillich

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“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.” — Elizabeth I

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“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“By all means use some time to be alone.” — Edward Young

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“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.” — Denis Waitley

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“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.” — Anne Hathaway

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“And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.” — John Irving

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“I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.” — David Cameron

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“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.” — Tori Amos

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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” — James Russell Lowell

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“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

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“I'm so secluded. Very alone.” — Yves Saint Laurent

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“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.” — Johnny Cash

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“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.” — Slavoj Zizek

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“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.” — Claire Danes

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