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Independent
We decide what we want to pursue,
there is no right or wrong,
we formulate our own paths.
-Arthur Maderson
Flirt with possible failure or the disappointment of others
for the chance to enjoy a success that is entirely your own.
- Eric Wiegardt
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because
he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- Aristotle
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul.
To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid
of,
because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
- Deepak K. Chopra
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone
to follow the course of their own imagination.
- Robert Genn
Spend some time alone every day.
- Dalai Lama
Solitude is the furnace of transformation.
- Henri Nouwen
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people:
that each protects the solitude of the other.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
- Tennessee Williams
The wonderful thing about looking at the real world
is that it is never the same for each individual.
- Graham Nickson
When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself.
Yourself is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.
- Pablo Picasso
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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