Bell Hooks Quotes

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

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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 don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to 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.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

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

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

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.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

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.

Solitude helps you reflect.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.