Alone Time Quotes - Page 4

• I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a way that I've never loved anyone, including myself. Also, I used to spend a lot of time alone, but he's this incredibly social kind of guy, so all of a sudden I'm always having people in and out of my house. It's changed the way I feel as a citizen of the world. And it's really important to me to feel good about what I'm working on, to justify the number of hours I'd have to be away from him.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Son, Motherhood, Thinking

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• I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

  Lucinda Williams

  My Boyfriend, Broke Up, More Time

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• I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time.

  Joshua Harris

  Girl, Passion, Dating

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• We [with husband] try and spend time alone, which is really hard to do. Of course, when you have kids they're like: "Why are you going out? You went out last night... you can't go out tonight!" so, you try to do that, and you try and ask somebody to please turn off the football game because you can't stand it any longer and you'd rather talk to them.You try to make time for each other where you can. You try to plan a trip away somewhere.

  Julianne Moore

  Football, Husband, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mistake, Party, Thinking

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• The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

  Paul Newman

  Giving, Possibility, Best Gift

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• Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Art, Museums, Age

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• I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Lonely, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Self, Names

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• What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Technology, People, Faces

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• We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

  Jewel

  Motivational, Dream, Knowing

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• Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Unhappy

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• It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Suicide, Hair

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

  Rachel Cohn

  Book, Way, Easier

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

  Joan Didion

  Complaining, More Time, Work Harder

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• As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

  Paul Rudnick

  Morning, Reading, Writing

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• She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.

  Djuna Barnes

  Sweet, Thinking, Wicked

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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• One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving, Alone With God, Best Gift

  Joyce Meyer (2009). “Never Give Up: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.

  Margaret Neylon

  Running, Angel, Giving

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• I think those walks to the studio were the most enjoyable times for me, because I could get lost in my head and think about what I wanted the album to sound like as I was writing. For the most part, it was great to have all that time alone writing the songs.

  Sarah Blasko

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Exercise, Practice

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• Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

  Bruce McCall

  Funny, School, Humor

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• I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Kids, Garden

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Needs, Literature

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• When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

  Summer Glau

  Girl, Feelings, Littles

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.

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