ME, MYSELF & I

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.”

“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”

“In solitude, where we are least alone.”

“Sometimes when you're really lonely, you really feel alive and you feel like you know who you are.”

“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”

“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”

“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”

“Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.”

“He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude”