I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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.
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.
When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!
My writing was very much like my diary, and I just put it out there to put it out there because I didn't really know what I was doing. The fact that people related to the songs made me feel less alone in a lot of situations.
Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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.
If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
Better be alone than in bad company.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
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.
I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy.
The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.
I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn't need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn't need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants - his personality is synonymous with success.