Solitude

On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

—Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

—Albert Einstein

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”

—Alice Koller

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

—Franz Kafka

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

—George Washington Carver

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. 

—Henry David Thoreau

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. 

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

—John Burroughs

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

—Kahlil Gibran

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

—Lao Tzu

In solitude, where we are least alone

—Lord Byron

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”

—Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

—Unknown

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

—Walt Whitman

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

—William Blake

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer--say, traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep--it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: