#lone

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#any #find #i #left #life

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#alone #another #being #cannot #creatures

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#body #directly #god #immediately #ordinary

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. ↗

— Horace Mann

#best #conduct #education #enjoyment #infinite

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#because #been #chance #discover #every

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#another #beneath #like #lower #mask

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. ↗

— Ferdinand Marcos

#act #acting #alone #always #coin

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

#ambition #be strong #bury #destroys #else

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

#chance #environment #golden #help #luck

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. ↗

— Edwin Markham

#back #brothers #comes #destiny #goes