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" It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. "

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" I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. "

" There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing. "

" I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. "

" I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky. "

" All we ask is to be let alone. "

Jefferson Davis

" David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle. "

" I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone. "

Deepika Padukone

" Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. "

" Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. "

" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "

" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. "

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

" Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. "

" I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. "

Whitney Houston

" Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. "

P. G. Wodehouse

" We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled. "

" When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem. "

" 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone. "

" I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! "

" I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play. "

Eddie Van Halen

" So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. "

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

" I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself. "

" Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone. "

Surround Yourself

" My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. "

" The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? "

Charles Lindbergh

" I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?' "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique. "

George Gershwin

" All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment. "