Isaac of Nineveh Quotes
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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 -
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
Naomi Judd -
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 -
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 -
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
Bear Grylls -
Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
Fran Drescher -
Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
D. B. Sweeney -
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 -
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Maggie Smith -
Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
Hailey Gates -
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
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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.
Wallace Stevens -
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 -
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 -
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 -
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
Claire Denis
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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 -
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Peter Benchley -
A river reaches places its source never knows.
Oswald Chambers -
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher -
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
Paul Watson -
Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.
Isaac of Nineveh