I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Category: Quotations
Khalil Gibran Quotes
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
Paradise is there, behind that door, in the next room; but I have lost the key.
Perhaps I have only mislaid it.
The envious praises me unknowingly.
The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of
Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her
voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking
Khalil Gibran
Destiny
Destiny is a feeling that you know something about yourself nobody else does. the picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true. it’s a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it’s a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It’s best to keep that all inside.
Bob Dylan, December 5, 2004
Solitude
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius; and the uniformity of a work denotes the hand of a single artist.
Edward Gibbon
The Bad Habit of Creative Talents
It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.
Theodore Roszak, In Search of the Miraculous
Anger
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
Emotion
Within the perfect architecture of thought, logic may often provide the structure — but from emotion come the inspiration.
Anaiis Milan, Contemplations on Perception (CY 8012)
Love
If hope is the engine of the soul, then duty is the navigator…and love is the fuel.
Unknowm
Love, Money, Fame
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. the hospitality was as cold as the ices.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The Desert
To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.
Paul Shepard, Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature