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" Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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" Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. "

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" 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. "

" The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really. "

" For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. "

Shannen Doherty

" I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible. "

" Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story. "

" You aren't going to leave me alone are you? "

" Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature. "

" Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. "

" My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me. "

" I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches. "

Andre Leon Talley

" I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. "

" I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. "

" Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. "

" Love is the only gold. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time. "

" There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people. "

" Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. "

" Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. "

" The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do. "

" I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same. "

" Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. "

" Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. "

" You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone. "

" We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. "

" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "

" I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. "

" The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. "

Robert Anton Wilson

" I almost got kidnapped trying to find a taxi in the street. In Saudi Arabia, it's not normal for a woman to walk in the street alone, and I don't cover my face, so I am an open target. "

Manal al-Sharif

" You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. "