All mans misfortunes spring from
their hatred of being alone.


Jean De La Bruyere

Have the courage to be alone, for once try to endure you own company for a while. Do not speak then, not even with yourself nor with the others with whom we dispute even when they are not there. Wait - Listen - Endure yourself!

K. Rahner

Solitude is a way of being with oneself, of learning to endure oneself, of becoming comfortable with the mystery that is Self. Solitude is a decision to encounter our inner Self, and only decision allows it to become part of our lifestyle.

Oliver Morgan

They are never alone that are
accompanied with noble thoughts.


Philip Sidney

Everyone is really alone. That is why people crowd together. But in the full current of life there is no loneliness. Everyone is alone before God. One cannot really run away from God to any human being, lover, friend or child. Every soul in God says to every other: I am with you to the end of the world.

Lewis Thompson

The capacity to be comfortable alone flows from satisfying experiences of being with someone else. What is more, satisfying experiences of being with someone else fuel a continuing capacity to be alone, without feeling adrift or lonely.

Stephanie Dowrick

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

Every moment there is news coming out of silence.


Rainer Maria Rilke

Silence is the richness of the soul,
loneliness is its poverty.


May Sarton

Living life to the full comes when the ultimate concerns have been faced: death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness. How we face or avoid those concerns has profound effects on the ways in which we experience intimacy and solitude, closeness and freedom, awareness of self and others.

Stephanie Dowrick

Sink in thyself!
There ask what ails thee at that shrine!


Matthew Arnold

Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

Huang Po

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

John Bunyan

You try being alone, without any form of distraction, and you will see how quickly you want to get away from yourself and forget what you are.

J. Krishnamurti

No answer eludes us if we turn to the source of all answers - the stillness within. Prayer accompanied by meditation will always provide the answers we need for the situations facing us. How comforting to know that all answers are as close as our quiet moments.

Each Day a New Beginning

Some men see things as they are and say why?
I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"


George Bernard Shaw

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

My formula: dream, risk and humour.


Bernard Tapie

Saddle your dreams afore you ride them.


Mary Webb

The Greeks gave us the most beautiful word in our language: the word "Enthusiasm" - from the Greek En Theo which means "inner God".

Louis Pasteur

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

If you are not fired with enthusiasm,
you will be fired with enthusiasm.


Vince Lombardi

When love and skill work together,
expect a masterpiece.


John Ruskin

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

John Updike

The longer you can look back,
the further you can look forward.


Winston Churchill