Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

Isaac of Nineveh

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• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Family
  • Change
  • Places

• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Friend
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • China
  • Places
  • Oil

• I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Choose
  • Shopping
  • Places

• Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Needs
  • Places
  • MGM

• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hidden

• There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Places
  • Outsiders

• What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Live
  • Society
  • Cool

• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Solitude

• The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Doubt
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Great
  • Experience
  • War

• Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Solitude

• Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

  

  Alice Koller
  • Alone
  • Achievement
  • Solitude

• I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Beginning
  • Mountains
  • Places

• If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Business

• There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Waiting
  • Secret
  • Attraction

• Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Solitude
  • Places
  • Hidden