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" The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. "

Douglas Coupland

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" There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times. "

" I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. "

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" Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. "

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" If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. "

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" If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. "

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