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Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
We need to find God, and he cannot
be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass-
grows in silence; see the stars,
the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have never found a 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.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
I love to be alone.
I never found the companion
that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Peter Hoeg
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning
when first I considered going.
Once faced and settled there really wasn't
any good reason to refer to it.
- Amelia Earhart
The architect should strive continually to simplify;
the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered
that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In most communities it is illegal
to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly.
Should it not be considered serious international misconduct
to manufacture a general war scare
in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere
to get American citizens to obey
the orders of constituted courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When we make college more affordable,
we make the American dream more achievable.
- William J. Clinton
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people
than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour
looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If there is one principle more deeply rooted
in the mind of every American,
it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
How does it become a man to behave
towards the American government today?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau
I hope that no American will waste his franchise
and throw away his vote
by voting either for me or against me solely
on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
- John F. Kennedy
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge
the truth and falsehood in an open market
is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay...
does not represent the will of the American people.
I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong.
I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse
to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
- Jimmy Carter
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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