949 private quotes tagged alone

“Work alone is noble.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“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

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“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

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“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” — Napoleon Hill

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“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.” — Nicole Richie

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“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.” — Sivananda

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“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.” — Chris Cornell

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“You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.” — Jim Bakker

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“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.” — Rosa Parks

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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“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

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“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

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“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.” — William Alexander

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“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

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“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

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“Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.” — Sophocles

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“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” — Martin Luther

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“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

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“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?'” — Johnny Carson

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“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.” — Samuel Johnson

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“He travels the fastest who travels alone.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“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

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“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

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“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

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