"We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being."

-- Hermann Hesse

#Loneliness Quotes #Self Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.”
“In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.”

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“Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.”

Source : "The Writings of Erik Satie".
“The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there were no after beings existing antecedent therto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursing the same thing still, and always will.”

Source : "Black Preacher to White America: The Collected Writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833".
“For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.”
“It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.”
“I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.”
“To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.”

Source : Christoph Martin Wieland (1861). “The republic of fools: being the history of the state and people of Abdera, in Thrace. Tr. [from Geschichte der Abderiten] by H. Christmas”, p.31

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