Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

I am then never less alone than when alone

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

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.

We must relearn to be alone.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

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.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.