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" Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. "

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" There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. "

Edwin Markham

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" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "

" I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. "

" It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge. "

" Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives. "

" I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone. "

" A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. "

" When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. "

" When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together. "

" Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. "

" Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. "

" There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat. "

" When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone. "

" One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. "

" Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them. "

" From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men. "

" Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. "

" The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. "

" I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. "

" Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. "

" An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. "

" 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. "

" Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to the office which now I hold. When I consented, it was for the sake of the king alone. When I was elected, I was formally acquitted of my responsibilities for all that I had done as a chancellor. "

Thomas Becket

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" I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone. "

" Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme. "

" If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone. "

" Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. "

" My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us. "

" We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. "

" I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. "