Being Alone Is Awesome Quotes

#1. What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

David A. Bednar

#3. I never, till now, had a friend who could give me repose; all have disturbed me, and, whether for pleasure or pain, it was still disturbance. But peace overflows from your heart into mine.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. Twilight is an insistent and infinite invitation to the wise to contemplate in peace!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Sometimes the spirit of a man isn't strong enough to survive the ghosts of his past

Colleen Hoover

#6. I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Michael Lomenda

#7. We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

Shane Claiborne

#8. I am deficient in character, and if I had more of it, I would be ashamed of the fact.

Jack Matthews

#9. I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Gillian Flynn

#10. Amid those scenes of solitude ... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

Thomas Cole

#11. Fear will learn to fear me.

Tahereh Mafi