“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”
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“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.”
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”
“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.”
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
“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.”
“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”
“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.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.”“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”
“Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?”
“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”
“The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.”
“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.”