Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I think that it's important to take time for yourself and to make sure to have those real moments when you're in bed at night, when you're with yourself.

Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known.

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.

After Wimbledon is one of the only times you can take time for yourself.

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.