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Fri 18 Dec 2015

Companionable

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Random quote of the day:

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.”

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Wed 12 Aug 2015

Unalone

Posted by PJ under friends, quote of the day, solitude
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Random quote of the day:

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

—Sir Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship”

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Thu 9 Jul 2015

Alone

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Random quote of the day:

“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a prison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

—Colette, Earthly Paradise

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Thu 25 Jun 2015

Soledad

Posted by PJ under conversations, genius, quote of the day, solitude
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Random quote of the day:

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

—Sir Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Tue 31 Mar 2015

The deep within

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, solitude, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter…the place of our salvation.”

—Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Way of the Heart

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Wed 9 Jan 2013

In the quiet of your mind

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“Solitude has but one disadvantage, but that is a serious one, it is apt to give one too high an opinion of one’s self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of every known or supposed defect we may have…”

—Lord Byron, recounted by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Journal of Correspondence and Conversations Between Lord Byron and the Countess of Blessington

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Tue 14 Feb 2012

Happy Valentine’s Day

Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry, solitude, WIP
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Inspired by that Albert Einstein quote from the other day…

 

Solitude
is a beautiful thing.
Not loneliness, that bitter,
twisted root—but aloneness,
the chance to be filled with the silent
whispers of the world, to feel the golden sun
shining for you alone, to express the hope that
brushes loving fingers through the contemplative mind.

Solitude
is the best friend
you will ever have—the warm,
caressing friend allowing you space,
time and stillness, who comes whenever
you fight your way out of the crowd into silence,
into peace,  oneness, and the deep, sustaining breath
of freedom.

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Mon 13 Feb 2012

The gift of aloneness

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Random quote of the day:


“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

—Albert Einstein, “Self-Portrait,” Out of My Later Years

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Thu 6 Jan 2011

Not the same as lonely

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Random quote of the day:

“Solitude is better than a bad companion.”

—Muhammad Shems Al-Deen

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