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Solitude is independence.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it dream of it live on that idea. Let the brain muscles nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

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

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!

Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Haruki Murakami

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Love would never leave us alone.

My heart never knew loneliness until you went away.

Unknown

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Kahlil Gibran

Health consists with temperance alone.

Forget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Then stirs the feeling infinite so felt, In solitude where we are least alone.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Martin Luther

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case the thought is staggering.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Abdul Kalam

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Honore de Balzac

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

It is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

In solitude where we are least alone.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Having abandoned the ways of darkness, let the wise follow the light. Having come from home to homelessness, let him enjoy the bliss of solitude so difficult to achieve.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Confucius

One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together, and they were scared of being alone.

The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted, according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Mother Teresa

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Dr. Seuss

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Aristotle

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Herman Hesse

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Solitude is painful when one is young but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

No memory is ever alone, it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Louis L'Amour

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

Sai Baba

Nothing ever exists entirely alone, everything is in relation to everything else.

Buddha

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Mason Cooley

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Alice Walker

Before the throne of the Almighty man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

It is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Charles Lindbergh

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Mason Cooley

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Lord Byron

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

Judy Garland

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page And be alone on earth as I am now

Lord Byron

It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvador Dali

I think I meant that given the circumstances of my childhood I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person because it was more romantic. You know I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Steve Martin

I need to do things on my own need to be left alone.

Henry Rollins

We had a great run. Three rings. I think people should leave it the hell alone and move on. ... I understand it's interesting but we also have an interesting game. The game itself tomorrow is interesting.

Kobe Bryant

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone, everything is in relation to everything else.

Buddha

Concentrated complete faith - that alone can bring victory.

Sai Baba

When one sings alone the heart is merged in the song. But when many sing together it acquires a Divine power.

Sai Baba

Know then this truth enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Maya Angelou

If those committed to the quest fail they will be forgiven. When lost they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone whether successful or not provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons let alone paint.

Michelangelo

God alone is the giver of life the guardian of life and the goal of life.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Sophocles

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.

Martin Luther

Associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Marilyn Monroe

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne Dyer

Rigid the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Virginia Woolf

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't want to be alone I want to be left alone.

Audrey Hepburn

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Albert Einstein

I am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?

What is uttered from the heart alone Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others, or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Calvin Coolidge

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

There are two types of poor people those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor the others are rich people out of luck.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem the most important problem is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body let alone the mind or both in combination when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

Practice alone makes man perfect.

Sai Baba

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come we can know that His purposes are just and true.

George W. Bush

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone and that I have no one to tell it to.

Michel de Montaigne

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robert Frost

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

When they are alone they want to be with others and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all human beings are like that.

Gertrude Stein

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza let alone cooking it.

Stephen Hawking

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen

I tend to stay up late not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Jim Carrey

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Marilyn Monroe

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Justice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone but upon error also.

Carl Jung

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I mean I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Clint Eastwood

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs, he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Chanakya

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom whole worlds apart who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Marcel Proust

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Marilyn Monroe

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken

Winston Churchill

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcus Aurelius

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent of human knowledge that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

John F. Kennedy

For the progress of humanity work alone is not adequate but the work should be associated with love compassion right conduct truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities selfless service cannot be performed.

Sai Baba

If you sing alone in your shrine the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.

Sai Baba

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

And then when all around grows dark when we feel utterly alone when all men right and left pass us by and know us not a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Max Muller

For beautiful eyes look for the good in others, for beautiful lips speak only words of kindness, and for poise walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

Patient endurance attaineth to all things, who God possesseth in nothing is wanting, alone God sufficeth.

Saint Teresa of Avila

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone. A man sir should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

A heart soaked in love alone is a sacred heart.

Sai Baba

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

Sai Baba

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

James Madison

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then all of a sudden I was the one being watched.

Alanis Morissette

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

When you get a thing the way you want it leave it alone.

Winston Churchill

I think people should just leave it the hell alone. Move on.

Kobe Bryant

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy, whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Aristotle

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance or the help of others, it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

Some will say Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer God only Acts & Is in existing beings or Men.

William Blake

The courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell

Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Steve Martin

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Ayn Rand

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Thomas Carlyle

Success comes when people act together, failure tends to happen alone.

Everyday the mail brings the thousands of letters and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet I do not take the help of anyone else even to open the envelopes. For you write to me intimate details of your personal problems believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write each one only a single letter that makes for Me a huge bundle a day, and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.

Sai Baba

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

E. O. Wilson

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst he has the company of a boy a youth and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Cesare Pavese

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

The best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Anne Frank

Your most precious valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You and you alone can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

W. Clement Stone

Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone, therefore we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Plant and your spouse plants with you, weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Theodor W. Adorno

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Voltaire

Religious austerities should be practiced alone study by two and singing by three. A journey should be undertaken by four agriculture by five and war by many together.

Chanakya

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination and that's all you have.

James Dean

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen only wait. Do not even wait be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking it can do no other in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Franz Kafka

This then is the test we must set for ourselves, not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes

Man does not live by soap alone, and hygiene or even health is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it, or better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Remember we're all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin

Work alone is noble.

Thomas Carlyle

The Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.

Winston Churchill

We're all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing dismay thee, All thing pass, God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Saint Teresa of Avila

My mother was a professional sick person, she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Jim Carrey

I am a man amongst men when they see Me I appear as a man. Amongst woman I am a woman. Amongst children I am a child. When alone I am God. This is the truth about Me.

Sai Baba

This is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When thinking about companions gone we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Walter Scott

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth, help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.

William Blake

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love, it could not do so alone but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it it can do so.

Franz Kafka

I don't even know how to use a parking meter let alone a phone box.

Princess Diana

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

The light of lights looks always on the motive not the deed the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler Yeats

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

Slump and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone.

Laurence J. Peter

He who has wealth has friends and relations, he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Chanakya

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour she can hurt you.

Erma Bombeck

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Tennessee Williams

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but primarily by catchwords.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.

Sai Baba

Change alone is eternal perpetual immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

Individual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it.

Sai Baba

If we take science as our sole guide if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable the old theology must go.

John Burroughs

Every man must do two things alone, he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Martin Luther

You that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

Its is Truth and Truth alone that is one's real friend relative.

Sai Baba

Alone all alone, Nobody but nobody, Can make it out here alone.

Maya Angelou

We learn about life not from plusses alone but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Gustave Flaubert

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

Hillary Clinton

They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.

Chanakya

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Theodor W. Adorno

It is not alone that property in all its forms is struck at but that liberty in all its forms is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism

Winston Churchill

Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation, therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.

Chanakya

Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality, man alone can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

Winston Churchill

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage, since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them, it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Chanakya

It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

George Washington

Ah mon cher for anyone who is alone without God and without a master the weight of days is dreadful.

Albert Camus

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love alone can overcome obstacles however many and mighty.

Sai Baba

The spirit burning but unbent / May writhe rebel - the weak alone repent!

Lord Byron

To the press alone chequered as it is with abuses the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

James Madison

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

Paul McCartney

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Orison Swett Marden

The desktop metaphor was invented because one you were a stand-alone device and two you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Steve Jobs

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

Without a family man alone in the world trembles with the cold.

Andre Maurois

Man alone is born crying lives complaining and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked earned money and was independent at 18.

Ingrid Bergman

Do not worry about anything. Place yourself fully at His disposal He knows. He has written the Play and He knows how it will end and how it will go on. Yours is but to act and retire. The Lord alone is aware of the Play for His is the Plan! You see only the part of the Play on the stage and so it is all very confused. When the entire story is unfolded then you will appreciate His plan not until then, for that you will have to get behind the screen of Maya and contact the Director Himself.

Sai Baba

In any great organization it is far far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Albert Camus

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Sophocles

The duration of life is uncertain and the place of habitation is uncertain, but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

Chanakya

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ accepting receiving resting upon Him alone for justification sanctification and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone, at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Elbert Hubbard

Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

If you are lonely when you're alone you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Baltasar Gracian

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps, with it alone she lives.

Ovid

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable I tolerate them, if I find them too obnoxious I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Love turns with a little indulgence to indifference or disgust, hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell, The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Michelangelo

Time which alone makes the reputation of men ends by making their defects respectable.

Voltaire

It is love alone that gives worth to all things

Saint Teresa of Avila

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

It is very easy to love alone.

Gertrude Stein

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Charlie Chaplin

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle sir is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant the active the brave.

Patrick Henry

Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.

Sai Baba

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

Bid then the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

Time alone reveals the just man, but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Friedrich Schiller

He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

Sai Baba

Though nature be ever so generous yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too, and till both concur the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't think I could live without hair makeup and styling let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Lady Gaga

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it the more we contemplate him.

Simone Weil

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone but also on trees and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Martin Luther

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control, these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Even though I love solar and love wind like most people do I like the renewable sources they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Mitt Romney

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Denis Waitley

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Drew Barrymore

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

I was sleeping the other night alone thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

When I was producing on my own I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself if nothing else that I could do it as a woman.

Alanis Morissette

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee One clover and a bee And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Henry David Thoreau

The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea, / And musing there an hour alone / I dreamed that Greece might yet be free.

Lord Byron

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Kin Hubbard

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