“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
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“Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.”
“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.”
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.”
“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.”
“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.”
“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.”
“As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.”
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”
“Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”
“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.”
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'”
“I restore myself when I'm alone.”
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
“The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.”