~Solitude~

“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”
~Paul Brunton~

We all like to be alone, to be able to think and reflect on life in general. We have noticed that we like do this even more often right now (especially when we have a good book:).

“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
~Albert Einstein~


I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
~Henry David Thoreau~

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854~


Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun~


In solitude, where we are least alone.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage~


No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
~Jack Kerouac~


Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
~Paul Tillich~

Interesting don't you think? And we dislike people who disrupt us, (we are thinking of certain people, who do not mind their own business and try to make it their business on how to live your life and [they need to practice solitude . . .]) in our solitude, for no reason at all.

Henry David Thoreau's books are interesting to read . . .