“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.”
Solitude is not the same as loneliness, though they often get confused. This collection explores both — the ache of isolation and the quiet power of being comfortable in your own company. Some of these quotes will make you want to reach out to someone; others will make you want to sit with yourself a while longer.
“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”
“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.”
“No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.”
“The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.”
“As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.”
“With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.”
“Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.”
“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”
“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”
“Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”
“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”
“Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.”
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
“By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.”
“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.”
“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”