George Washington Quotes

When I was actively working, I had more than my share of limelight. But over the last many years I have been leading a quiet life and I've learnt to value my privacy.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.

I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.