Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"Solitude is the place of purification."
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing."
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
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"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
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"I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss."
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"Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."
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"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
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"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
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"I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone."
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"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."
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"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation."
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"Pain is never permanent."
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"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
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"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
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"Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves."
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"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window."
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"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."
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"Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons."
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"I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself."
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"He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude."
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"Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes."
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"Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone."
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