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Associate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No what the artist needs is loneliness.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Rigid the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

I don't want to be alone I want to be left alone.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?

What is uttered from the heart alone Will win the hearts of others to your own.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others, or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

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.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem the most important problem is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body let alone the mind or both in combination when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Practice alone makes man perfect.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come we can know that His purposes are just and true.

George W. Bush

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone and that I have no one to tell it to.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

When they are alone they want to be with others and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all human beings are like that.

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.

Stephen Hawking

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

I tend to stay up late not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Change alone is unchanging.

We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Justice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone but upon error also.

Carl Jung

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.

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.

I mean I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs, he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcus Aurelius

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent of human knowledge that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

For the progress of humanity work alone is not adequate but the work should be associated with love compassion right conduct truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities selfless service cannot be performed.

If you sing alone in your shrine the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

And then when all around grows dark when we feel utterly alone when all men right and left pass us by and know us not a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

For beautiful eyes look for the good in others, for beautiful lips speak only words of kindness, and for poise walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

Patient endurance attaineth to all things, who God possesseth in nothing is wanting, alone God sufficeth.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone. A man sir should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

A heart soaked in love alone is a sacred heart.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone but that's usually how you end up crying?

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then all of a sudden I was the one being watched.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

When you get a thing the way you want it leave it alone.

I think people should just leave it the hell alone. Move on.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy, whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Aristotle

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance or the help of others, it is in yourself alone.

Some will say Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer God only Acts & Is in existing beings or Men.

The courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.

Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Success comes when people act together, failure tends to happen alone.

Everyday the mail brings the thousands of letters and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet I do not take the help of anyone else even to open the envelopes. For you write to me intimate details of your personal problems believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write each one only a single letter that makes for Me a huge bundle a day, and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst he has the company of a boy a youth and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone.

The best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Your most precious valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You and you alone can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

W. Clement Stone

Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone, therefore we are saved by love.

Plant and your spouse plants with you, weed and you weed alone.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Religious austerities should be practiced alone study by two and singing by three. A journey should be undertaken by four agriculture by five and war by many together.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination and that's all you have.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen only wait. Do not even wait be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking it can do no other in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

This then is the test we must set for ourselves, not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Man does not live by soap alone, and hygiene or even health is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it, or better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Remember we're all in this alone.

Work alone is noble.

Thomas Carlyle

The Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.

We're all in this alone.

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing dismay thee, All thing pass, God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Saint Teresa of Avila

My mother was a professional sick person, she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

I am a man amongst men when they see Me I appear as a man. Amongst woman I am a woman. Amongst children I am a child. When alone I am God. This is the truth about Me.

Sai Baba

This is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

When thinking about companions gone we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth, help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.

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 don't even know how to use a parking meter let alone a phone box.

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

The light of lights looks always on the motive not the deed the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Slump and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone.

He who has wealth has friends and relations, he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour she can hurt you.

Erma Bombeck

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but primarily by catchwords.

Every man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.

Change alone is eternal perpetual immortal.

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.

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

Individual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it.

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

Every man must do two things alone, he must do his own believing and his own dying.

You that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

Its is Truth and Truth alone that is one's real friend relative.

Alone all alone, Nobody but nobody, Can make it out here alone.

Maya Angelou

We learn about life not from plusses alone but from minuses as well.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

It is not alone that property in all its forms is struck at but that liberty in all its forms is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism

Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation, therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.

Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality, man alone can dream and make his dreams come true.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage, since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them, it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

Ah mon cher for anyone who is alone without God and without a master the weight of days is dreadful.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

Love alone can overcome obstacles however many and mighty.

The spirit burning but unbent / May writhe rebel - the weak alone repent!

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.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

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

The desktop metaphor was invented because one you were a stand-alone device and two you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

Without a family man alone in the world trembles with the cold.

Man alone is born crying lives complaining and dies disappointed.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked earned money and was independent at 18.

Ingrid Bergman

Do not worry about anything. Place yourself fully at His disposal He knows. He has written the Play and He knows how it will end and how it will go on. Yours is but to act and retire. The Lord alone is aware of the Play for His is the Plan! You see only the part of the Play on the stage and so it is all very confused. When the entire story is unfolded then you will appreciate His plan not until then, for that you will have to get behind the screen of Maya and contact the Director Himself.

In any great organization it is far far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

The duration of life is uncertain and the place of habitation is uncertain, but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

Chanakya

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.

Charles Spurgeon

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.

Better be alone than in bad company.

If you are lonely when you're alone you are in bad company.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps, with it alone she lives.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable I tolerate them, if I find them too obnoxious I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Love turns with a little indulgence to indifference or disgust, hatred alone is immortal.

William Hazlitt

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell, The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Time which alone makes the reputation of men ends by making their defects respectable.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things

Saint Teresa of Avila

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

Gertrude Stein

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Charlie Chaplin

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle sir is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant the active the brave.

Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

Bid then the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

Time alone reveals the just man, but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

Though nature be ever so generous yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too, and till both concur the work cannot be perfected.

I don't think I could live without hair makeup and styling let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Lady Gaga

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it the more we contemplate him.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone but also on trees and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control, these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Even though I love solar and love wind like most people do I like the renewable sources they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Mitt Romney

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Drew Barrymore

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

I was sleeping the other night alone thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

When I was producing on my own I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself if nothing else that I could do it as a woman.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee One clover and a bee And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea, / And musing there an hour alone / I dreamed that Greece might yet be free.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

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