Solitude Practice Quotes

#1. What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.

Susan Cain

#2. Exposure to a two-year-old boy was probably the best possible object lesson in the dangers of motherhood,

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Solitude is the biggest medicine for once peace, It makes your heart pure and calm.

Debolina Bhawal

#4. See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.

Dallas Willard

#5. Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.

T.F. Hodge

#6. I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

Daphne Gottlieb

#7. Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

Mercedes Lackey

#9. Hope had been that thing with burnt feathers buried in her soul, but now it was waking up, stretching, beating fresh wings in the ashes.

Shannon Hale

#10. Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

Jack Lemmon

#11. I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.

Steve Goodier

#12. We are not to practice Bible reading, fasting, solitude, prayer, and other disciplines to make God happy with us but to make space to hear how happy God is with us because of Jesus.

Jimmy Davis

#13. Solitude is a gift you give yourself every day.

Rachel Astarte Piccione

#14. To become a great saint, it is no bad first step to be a big sinner.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#15. With the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood,

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

Paul McCartney

#17. Come here," she prompted. "You want to do this, yes?"
Not really.
(Newt and Rachel)

Kim Harrison

#18. In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

Penny Lernoux

#19. Paperwork wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for all the paper. And the work.

Darynda Jones

#20. Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude - because we are always 'doing' things - we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude

Michael Gurian

#21. He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective.

J.D. Salinger

#22. If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.

Rajiv Mehrotra

#23. Ritual of Solitude works best when you practice it at the same time every day.

Robin S. Sharma