“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Is it so hard to discuss facts as they happened? It seems so, even though there are documents to back these realities, this "us and them" mentality continues to be propagated and perpetrated”
Helena Dalli
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“Solitude is independence.”
Hermann Hesse
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”
Abraham Cowley
