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

• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Society
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• 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

• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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

• No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Water

• 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

• I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Different
  • Grandmother
  • Mentality

• I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.

  

  Luis Fortuno
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • English

• Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Important
  • Relationship
  • Trust

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

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Solitude
  • Places
  • Hidden