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"We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone,I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude."
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"I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented."

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable."

"While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace."

"And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it."

"An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him."

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

"In these pages, traveling "solo does not necessarily mean "alone. The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience."

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."
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"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."

"In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes."

"My mind loves you so much it wants to own you. My heart loves you so much it wants to set you free."

"Option A:Spend your life trying to get others to accept you.Option B:Accept yourself, and spend your life with others who recognize what a beauty you are."

"There is so much we'll likely never agree on, but can we at least agree to be respectful and kind to each other anyway."

"Become more committed to seeing what's right about you than you are to seeing what's wrong, and soon you'll start to feel a lot different about yourself."
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