949 private quotes tagged alone

“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.” — Horace

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“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“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

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“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

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“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“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

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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” — Anthony Burgess

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“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

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“It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.” — Terry Pratchett

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“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.” — Paul Tillich

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“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

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“Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.” — Charles Stanley

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“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.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“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

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“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.” — Thornton Wilder

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“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

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“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.” — Deborah Tannen

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“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” — Paul Tillich

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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.” — Denis Waitley

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“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.” — Paul Tillich

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“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.” — Baruch Spinoza

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