"In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way." Angeles Arrien

"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it." Thomas Merton

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal

"Take the time to come home to yourself every day." Robin Casarjean

"Going out for a walk, I really found I was going in." John Muir

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." John Lubbock

"Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace.... Great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart." Jeanne Marie Laskas

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." James Russell Lowell